Compensation for Healthcare Workers with Long Covid Increased to 24,010 Euros

The compensation for health care workers with long covid will be increased regardless. The group that was already entitled to an amount of 15,000 euros will receive 9,010 euros. So the total amount comes to 24,010, writing Departing Minister for Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) to the House of Representatives.

Get it now 425 health care workers compensation, but this group is expanding. Not only healthcare workers who fell ill in the first corona wave (from March to June 2020) will receive compensation. The scheme will also apply to healthcare workers who contracted Covid between July and the end of December 2020. It is not yet clear how big this group is.

The minister is meeting a request from a majority of the House of Representatives in January this year. The House believes that the government should be more generous to health care workers who worked hard at the time when there were not many face masks available and became ill with a chronic illness.

Also the unions has been campaigning for a better financial arrangement and also went to court in February 2023. The unions believe that the state did not protect medical workers enough in the first year of the corona disease.

Minister Helder needed a few months to meet the wishes of the House and find money. She says it is “very sad” that some health care workers have also lost their “loved job” in health care. The compensation is intended “as a sign of the suffering he caused”, according to the minister.

The extra money and compensation for the new group of health care workers with long Covid cannot be transferred immediately. Processing new applications requires preparation time. The minister hopes to organize this before the summer.