Cabinet stops aid packages in October | Inland

The cabinet recently decided to extend the compensation for wage costs, fixed costs and income of the self-employed until the end of the summer. But then the support will come to an end, ministers Koolmees (Social Affairs), Blok (Economic Affairs) and Hoekstra (Finance) report.

“Given the positive epidemiological and economic picture, the government will not extend the support and recovery package after the third quarter of this year for the time being,” argue the ministers at the end of the tens of billions of support packages.

D66 MP De Jong is concerned that the cabinet is pre-sorting at the end of the support: “Let’s make sure that entrepreneurs no longer need the support, before you remove the safety net.”

In the coming months, the wage compensation, the so-called NOW scheme, will also be carefully cut. Companies can still receive compensation for up to 80 percent of their wage costs. Now that contact restrictions have largely disappeared and companies can open with ‘test-before-access’, a complete loss of turnover as a result of the corona crisis is no longer to be expected, the cabinet argues.

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