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Independents against Lieberman's compensation plan: "Humiliating" | Israel today

2022-05-02T05:48:42.530Z


Sharp criticism of the memorandum of law for compensation for victims of omicrons: "100,000 business owners will not be entitled to compensation" • Self-employed organizations: "This is a hollow plan for a small return" • Criticism also of Finance Minister Lieberman: To be discussed in the Knesset "


"Humiliating and degrading" - this is how the Chamber of Independent and Business Organizations in Israel (Lahav) describes the outline of compensation for business owners affected by the Omicron wave, in its current form, which will be discussed in the Knesset next week.

At the same time, an emergency debate on the issue will be held in the Knesset today, at the initiative of MK Ofir Katz.

In an objection they published yesterday to the law memorandum, which reached Israel Today, Lahav claims that "the plan will leave about 100,000 business owners injured, at a level that actually endangers their profession, since they will not be entitled to any assistance under the law memorandum."

This is an outline that was presented to the public at the end of February, and only now is legislation expected to be passed - which will result in a delay of several months in the provision of compensation.

Except for the delay, the independents lament the abysmal difference between what was presented by the Minister of Finance and the wording that will probably be approved in the Knesset.

Thus, Blade says that the criteria for providing assistance are draconian and much stricter than any previous aid program.

Independents against Lieberman: "An abysmal difference between the wording he presented to us and the wording that will come up in the Knesset,"

In addition, according to them, the program purports to give the self-employed a budget of one billion shekels, which will include a social grant, a grant for participation in fixed expenses, a grant to encourage employment and exemption from property taxes - but in practice the grant amounts are small. Will not be entitled at all to receive it, according to them.

According to Lahav, the aid was also denied to tens of thousands of self-employed people who experienced a drastic decline in their incomes in the months before the omicron crisis.

"Business owners from the production, events, culture, leisure, tourism and hospitality industries - whose activities were effectively shut down during the epidemic - will be entitled, according to the proposed outline, to a minimal grant, which only pays a small part of the losses incurred."

Advocate Roi Cohen, President of the Bureau: "Does the Minister of Finance need a magnifying glass to see the distress?

The self-employed and small businesses, who have been waiting since February 28 for immediate assistance, have been forgotten as usual.

The severe disappointment from the Finance Minister's statement that day, on the compensation outline, cannot be described, when what we have at the moment - two months later - is a hollow plan to repay only a few thousand shekels, and 100,000 business owners will not be entitled to any compensation. "

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Source: israelhayom

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