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The Minister for Inclusion Social Security and Migration Jose Luis Escriva stressed that after the sharp drop in membership in March and the slight decrease in April the data from the last few weeks shows a certain recovery in employment after the impact of COVID-19 . As he stressed before the Senate Committee on Labor Inclusion Social Security and Migration from the beginning of May until now Social Security affiliation has grown by more than 285000 people recovering part of the previously destroyed employment.In addition Escriva has highlighted that the incentive scheme to favor the incorporation of workers in ERTE which gives a higher exemption for the social contributions of activated workers than of suspended workers has had a significant impact on activity. Specifically since May the number of workers affected by an ERTE has dropped by one million people indicating that this scheme is working. Thus currently there are about 2 million people in ERTE of force majeure 35 less than in early May and 320000 in ERTE of non-force majeure 20 less than in May highs.Escriv has assured that in this sense the best proof that the measures taken are being effective is that the vast majority of workers who have left an ERTE a million in total have done so to rejoin the activity. Escriva has also underlined that the rate of activation of suspended employees has accelerated in recent weeks as confinement measures have been eased.Other measures to mitigate the effects of COVID-19The Inclusion Minister recalled in the Senate other measures put in place to soften the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy such as the extraordinary benefit for the self-employed granted to more than 1.4 million self-employed workers or the postponements of quotas to Social Security which were especially relevant at some times during the pandemic especially in April.On the other hand Social Security has recognized 750000 Temporary Disability benefits associated with COVID-19. All of them both due to isolation 70 of the total and contagion regardless of the circumstances in which they occurred have been assimilated to an accident at work freeing workers and companies from the cost of termination.In immigration matters Escriva recalled that draft measures have also been taken such as the authorization of young people between 18 and 21 years old with non-profit residence permits to work in the agricultural sector. In addition these young people have been granted a two-year work and residence permit.The Ministry has made some procedures more flexible extending the authorizations for permits and residences whose validity ended during the state of alarm to avoid the irregularity that occurred. Likewise procedures have been streamlined to favor the hiring of foreign health personnel in a regular situation which has benefited some 500 people and the humanitarian care system has been strengthened with new resources and protocols to guarantee the isolation of positive people in COVID-19 as well as with the opening of new places in the Canary Islands.General lines of the MinistryIn addition to analyzing the measures adopted by the Ministry of Inclusion Social Security and Migration during the pandemic Minister Escriv has presented the general lines of action for this legislature underscoring the need to promote two major national consensuses in pensions and migration one Once the Minimum Life Income a key measure in terms of inclusion has been validated in the Congress of Deputies without any vote against.The minister recalled that the Minimum Vital Income will be a social policy aimed at eradicating extreme poverty and working for social inclusion and participation in the labor market of the beneficiaries. The new benefit which in the first 72 hours has been requested by 170000 people will benefit some 850000 households where more than 2.3 million people live. The high number of requests received in the first hours indicates that it is a very necessary measure in Spain Escriv stressed.
