Entrepreneurs most often apply for exemption from the payment of social insurance premiums for three months. They have already submitted 1.2 million such applications. 50,600 other applications concerned the deferral of social insurance premiums or breaking them into instalments.

‘Apart from that, entrepreneurs submitted 14,400 applications for support of job protection from the Guaranteed Employment Benefit Fund, with the total amount of support reaching PLN 1.2 billion. The biggest amounts of funds were granted to companies from Silesia – PLN 400 million, from Lower Silesia – PLN 165 million and from Subcarpathia – PLN 87.7 million,’ enumerates the Minister of Family, Labour and Social Policy Marlena Maląg.

Loans for microentrepreneurs

345,600 applications for a low-interest rate up to PLN 5,000 for microentrepreneurs were submitted to county labour offices. Until Friday, 94,400 applications for loan in the total amount of PLN 482.1 million were approved (over 195,000 employees were included in this applications).

Thanks to changes in the anti-crisis shield, the circle of microentrepreneurs entitled to a loan was enlarged with entities that do not employ and have never employed people.

Idle time benefit – PLN 340 million was transferred to the accounts of interested entities

341,000 self-employed people and almost 53,000 service providers have already applied for an idle time benefit. The idle time benefit amounts to 80% of minimum remuneration, which is equal to PLN 2,080. Until Friday, the total amount of almost PLN 340 million in respect of idle time benefit has been transferred to the accounts of self-employed people and service providers.

‘On the one hand, these figures show how important and necessary it was to introduce the anti-crisis shield and, on the other hand, they prove how each instrument of the shield functions and money is credited to the accounts of interested persons,’ says Minister Marlena Maląg.