Wage replacement payment for parents is extended

The corona crisis is a real challenge for many working parents. So those affected should now be financially relieved.

• The corona crisis * is a real challenge for working parents.

• After all, day-care centers and schools have long ceased to have regular operations.

• Parents in the corona crisis should be relieved by continued wages. The innovations.

Corona crisis: help for working parents to be extended

Working parents have a particularly difficult time in the Corona crisis *, for some of them there is at least one comforting message: The state wants to pay parents who are unable to work because of closed schools and day care centers longer wages than before , like the German press Agency (dpa) reports. On May 20, the Federal Cabinet initiated a corresponding expansion of the current regulation, which was decided at the end of March due to the corona pandemic .

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Corona crisis: wage replacement for parents to be extended

So far, this applies: Those who cannot work in the corona crisis * because of the care of small children and therefore do not earn money, have received 67 percent of their net income as compensation for a maximum of six weeks, up to a maximum of 2016 euros per month. The employer pays the money and can have it reimbursed by the authorities.

According to the dpa report, this is changing concretely: the loss of earnings compensation should now be paid per parent for a maximum of ten weeks . Single parents should even be entitled to up to 20 weeks' compensation.

It is also new that the service can also be used on a daily basis in the future . "There are now some openings in daycare centers and schools, but no full childcare," said Social Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD). In the case of daily claims, the length of payment of the compensation is extended accordingly.

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There are these prerequisites for entitlement : The prerequisite for wage replacement is that the children under the age of twelve or need help because of a disability and that there is otherwise "no other reasonable care option".

When should the regulations come into force?  "Like many of the Corona protective measures, the now planned expansion of the wage replacement payment for parents will be implemented quickly," dpa writes. The changes would still have to be approved by the Bundestag and Bundesrat. According to the responsible Federal Ministry of Health, the plans are to be adopted together with a tax aid law in the corona pandemic. According to previous planning, this will be on the agenda in the Bundestag next Thursday. The Federal Council meets again on June 5. "It remained unclear on Wednesday whether the regulation also applies retrospectively, in cases where the previous six weeks' wage replacement payment has been exhausted," says the report of the German Press Agency (as of May 20),

The wage replacement is to be extended because daycare centers and schools are unlikely to be able to go into regular operation for a long time, reports dpa. After several medical associations had previously asked for the facilities to be opened immediately, there is also increasing discussion about a quicker return to school and daycare facilities.

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