• 05/10/2022
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Hospital fees will rise, conditions will ease. Like in spring<

Attention: You can find current information after approval by the MPs in a new article!

If you still want to read the archived article about the original government proposal, here it is:

Employees who stay at home and cannot work due to a closed school or a child's quarantine will no longer lose so much money. Nursing allowance will rise from 60 to 80 percent of the so-called reduced earnings. People who have been at home with their children since the beginning of November have a chance to win it. This was decided by the outgoing ANO and ČSSD government, when it belatedly supported the proposal of the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Jana Maláčová.

Therefore, the so-called crisis infirmary, which operated similarly this spring, but ended with the arrival of the summer holidays, is returning. The proposal will now go to deputies and senators. The government submits it to the Chamber of Deputies with a request for accelerated consideration in a so-called legislative emergency.

The standard amount of the medical allowance is 60 percent of the reduced earnings, but it will temporarily rise to 80 percent. According to the extraordinary rules, the minimum amount of nursing allowance for an employee in a work or service relationship must reach at least CZK 400 per calendar day (with a possible reduction in case of shorter working hours).

Due to the coronavirus restrictions, parents will be entitled to it for the entire time they stay at home with their children. Exceptionally, therefore, the standard limit of a maximum of nine calendar days (sixteen for single parents) does not apply. In addition to employees, people who work on an agreement to perform work or on work activities, if they pay insurance premiums to social security, will also be entitled to crisis nursing allowance.

Nursing fees rise, conditions ease. As in spring

The age limit of 10 years does not change. Therefore, the nursing allowance cannot be started for a child who has already had his tenth birthday (if the drawing started earlier, it can continue). Regardless of age, parents of children with special educational needs, specifically with severe developmental behavioral disorders, simultaneous impairment of multiple disabilities or autism, can also access crisis nursing care.

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However, in contrast to the first half of the year, only the standard range of beneficiaries should be entitled to the nursing allowance: i.e. parents (regardless of the joint household) and possibly other persons living with the child in the household. The government refused to expand the circle of possible beneficiaries again to include all relatives in the direct or secondary line according to Section 772 of the Civil Code, or siblings, even though they do not live in the household with the child. It is not excluded that MPs will eventually expand this circle (in practice, it can mainly be grandparents, aunts or uncles, but also older siblings).

The government proposes the validity of the crisis infirmary for the period from November 1 to February 28, i.e. until the end of the period for which it approved the last extraordinary anti-covid measures. The proposal still needs to be approved by the Parliament and signed by the President.

Even after the increase, sick pay will not equal the net wages earned by employees who continue to work. "For example, in the case of a general nurse without specialization, if she has an average of CZK 25,211 net per month per year, the current nursing fee after the increase is CZK 21,990. And, for example, a welder with a net salary of CZK 27,263 will have a medical allowance of CZK 23,970," explained deputy Kateřina Valachová (ČSSD) already in the spring.

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Editor-in-chief of the website Peníze.cz. It focuses on a wide range of personal finance and consumer topics. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague, but he likes the media even more than paragraphs. He led the coverage of the Czech... More articles by the author.

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