Subject: a couple of questions
From: Maddalena Honorati <[email-masked]>
To: Tamar Barkalaia <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 16:08:25 +0000

Dear Tamila,

A couple of questions when you have few minutes:

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Would some of the “individual entrepreneurs” in the business register (checking GEOSTAT website) include our target self-employed?

2.
The micro and small enterprise database you mentioned yesterday is the same as the business register?

3.
Where would a taxi driver register or buy a license?

For the unemployment benefit for formal sector workers who lose a job:

Is the tax payer database that is used to cross verify?

Are you considering using the contribution to the pension system (pillar 2) also as a mean of verification? I saw that while it is mandatory for all employees, also self-employed can
contribute (on a voluntary basis) . Self -employed who contributed could be considered eligible to the unemployment benefit?

Will the unemployed apply to the benefit or the firm will signal the layoff? Now firms have to pay a severance payment for a month, will this be in addition to the severance payment?
Thanks for clarifying.

As mentioned on the phone this morning I am requesting whether electricity compensations are eligible under the Fast Track Facility .

Thanks

Maddalena

Maddalena Honorati

Senior Economist

Social Protection & Labor

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