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The Ministry of Labor and Social Security created a special unemployment benefit regime which includes workers dependent on companies that initiated the request for an extension between June 1 and July 31 2020. The National Director of Social Security Daniel Garca Zeballos gave a press conference where he referred to this issue.The chief reported that last year there were 600 applications for an extension of unemployment benefit and as of August 2020 4500 were received a situation that led to delays in the processing of applications.This exponential increase was due to the unemployment benefits that have occurred since March Zeballos said.The peak of requests reported by the chief occurred in the months of June and July covering in the latter case about 1800 requests.For this reason for a few weeks the authorities of the Ministry of Labor have entrusted a very important number of officials who work in various areas to address this situation with the aim of responding as quickly as possible to companies and workers.Another measure in this regard was the resolution issued by the MTSS on Thursday August 27 which automatically enables the extension of the unemployment benefit regime for a period of 90 days for those companies that have requests for an extension initiated between the 1st June and July 31 2020.The resolution was drawn up in permanent contact with the BPS Zeballos said.In agreement with the BPS we decided to approve the resolution that allows 1800 applications for the extension of unemployment benefits that were in process to be transferred to the BPS with a special regime he added.
