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The Gijón City Council estimates that 1,700 businesses will receive the new direct aid due to the pandemic | BE Gijón | Today for Today Gijón

It’s about the second line of direct aids launched by the City Council of Gijón derived from the “emergency situation that some businesses are going through in the city”. Specifically, and for this call, hospitality professionals who do not have a license to install terraces, gyms, sports schools, travel agencies, fairgrounds and those establishments and retail business premises and professional activities, as long as they have an area of ​​exhibition and sale to the public equal to or less than 300 square meters, that are located in shopping centers or parks in Gijón (Los Fresnos and Mercado de San Agustín) and that do not have a direct and independent access door to the outside.

As stated in BE Gijón the councilor for Economic Promotion, Employment, Tourism and Local Commerce, Santos Tejón, “After a line of general aid we have seen that there have been cases and cases. A place with a terrace could at least maintain some activity, but the places without a terrace have had to close when we have been at alert level 4 + (extreme risk level). We hope that these will be a small palliative for those sectors in our city. “

The aid, which amounts to 1.2 million euros and which the City Council estimates will be able to benefit about 1,700 businesses, they are direct and unique; 700 euros per company that can only be processed electronically “to ensure their agility. We want them to be effective as soon as possible. We will ask for a single resolution and we hope that they will be entered during this month of June.”

One of the novelties Regarding the previous line of aid is that “Companies or freelancers are exempted from having debts with the different administrations. Regardless of the debts they have, they will be able to receive the aid. “Santos Tejón has confirmed that This will be the last call of the year and a third is expected; 1,250,000 additional euros for the maintenance of jobs that are in ERTE.


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