Workers to get stipend after April 10

The first payments of a special handout of 800 euros for workers hit by the coronavirus crisis will be made after April 10. The emergency stipend concerns people who are out of work either because their employers were forced to shut down their business by the government or because their contracts have been suspended by enterprises hurt by the pandemic.

As applications for the benefit continue to pour into the Labor Ministry's relevant databases, by Friday 460,000 employers had applied on the Ergani platform for benefits for 720,211 workers, while another 130,000 workers filed for the stipend on supportemployees.yeka.gr.

Labor Minister Yiannis Vroutsis told Skai TV on Friday that the first category of workers - those at businesses where operations have been suspended on the orders of the government - will receive the 800-euro handout once the process (which is...