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The Chamber of Deputies and Deputies sent to the Senate for the third step the bill that makes the access requirements more flexible temporarily and increases the amount of unemployment insurance benefits due to the Covid-19 pandemic and perfects the benefits of Law 21227 which authorizes access to the benefits of the aforementioned insurance.In the session Deputy Ramn Barros UDI rendered the report of the Labor Commission where he explained the process by which finally articles 3 and 4 that increased the amounts of benefits were rejected in this instance causing most of the project lost its legal effectiveness.However he added that in this process an indication was incorporated that facilitates the access of domestic workers so that once the resources of their compensation fund have been exhausted they can resort to the Solidarity Unemployment Fund.For his part Deputy Daniel Nunez PC delivered the report of the Finance Commission where the Executive replaced through indications the rejected articles which were approved along with a modification that eliminated the final article which benefited the and the workers of private house.The initiative voted in the Chamber indicates among other provisions that the benefits that are paid out of the funds of the Individual Account for Unemployment will correspond to 55 of the average of the wages earned by the worker in the last three months in which contributions are recorded prior to the end of the employment contract thus raising the percentages established in the preceding rule.The foregoing will be both for employment contracts of indefinite duration as well as for fixed-term contracts or for a specific work job or service . In this way it is established that from the second and until the fifth month of use of the insurance.To finance these benefits the resources of the Individual Account for Unemployment of the worker will be drawn and when these are insufficient they will be financed from the Solidarity Unemployment Fund. In the Chamber the entire project was approved in general and in particular with the exception of Article 4 which with 77 votes in favor 70 against and two abstentions did not reach the required quorum.Said rule established that the benefits paid out of the Solidarity Unemployment Fund during the period of validity of this law will be governed during the months indicated in the following table and until October 31 2020 and will correspond to the percentage indicated in the second column and said benefit will be affected by the upper and lower values for each month referred to in the third and fourth columns respectivelyIt was also pointed out among other considerations that by means of a supreme decree issued by the Ministry of Finance and also signed by the Minister of Labor the parameters that will allow increasing the percentage of the average remuneration of the fifth shift will be established which may reach up to an average remuneration of 55.In the voting in the Chamber an indication was renewed by the deputy Claudia Mix Commons to article 11 which refers to the workers of private homes indicating that they can also request the Emergency Family Income during the period of suspension of their contracts as it will be considered that they are not receiving income.The indication adds that the withdrawals that are accessed by virtue of Article 4 of the aforementioned Law 21227 a norm that refers precisely to private home workers will not be considered as income for such purposes.
