📋 Tender Overview
The National Congress dispatched the bill that makes the access and benefits of the Unemployment Insurance more flexible perfecting the Employment Protection law whose benefits are extended until October 31.The text published on September 4 as Law 21263 temporarily relaxed the requirements to access the Unemployment Insurance contemplated in Law 19728 in order to allow more workers to access this contribution improving Insurance benefits as well as those included in the Employment Protection Law. Finally it contemplates the possibility of total withdrawal of the balance of the Individual Unemployment Account under certain conditions.The rule thus defines that workers affiliated with the unemployment insurance may access until October 31 2020 to benefits charged to the Individual Account for Unemployment and to transfers charged to the Solidarity Unemployment Fund if they meet any of the alternative requirements indicated in the Employment Protection Law regarding the number of contributions which must be registered prior to the end of the contract.In this way the benefits that are paid out of the funds of the Individual Account will correspond to 55 of the average of the remunerations earned by the worker in the last three months in which contributions are registered prior to the end of the contract of work thus raising the percentages established in the previous rule.If the funds in the individual account are exhausted and as long as the requirements are met the Solidarity Unemployment Fund is accessed. In the case of accessing Unemployment Insurance by the Employment Protection Law the procedure is carried out by the employer Therefore workers should not enter any document only agree with the company to suspend their work or reduce the working day. Finally if a worker is unemployed has ever quoted in the AFC but does not meet the requirements to access Unemployment Insurance this law authorizes that he can make the total withdrawal of his balance in his individual account a procedure that is carried out 100 online on the AFC site.
