Albania

• Brief

  • 'Leave No One Behind' Response to COVID19 in Albania | May 2020 | United Nations Development Programme

• News Article

  • Armenia: Human Capital Investments are the Key to Resilient Growth in the Era of COVID-19 | 28 January 2021 | ModernDiplomacy

  • PM Signs Order to Postpone Payment of Loans | 17 March 2020 | Albanian Daily News

  • Coronavirus in Albania Poses Challenge to People without Savings | 13 March 2020 | Albanian Daily News

• Op-Ed

  • Interview with World Bank Country Manager for Albania on Social and Economic Impacts of COVID-19 | 02 June 2020 | The World Bank

• Report

  • Albania: Employment and social policy measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic | August 2021 | European Social Policy Network 

  • UN Albania COVID-19 Socio-economic Recovery & Response Plan | August 2020 | United Nations Sustainable Development Group
     

Armenia

• News Article

  • WFP and the Government of Armenia provide take-home food rations to 100,000 primary schoolchildren | 23 November 2020 | World Food Programme

  • Despite stimulus efforts, many Armenian workers fall through the cracks | 11 June 2020 | Eurasianet

  • Government Approves More Cash Handouts To Struggling Families | 02 April 2020 | Government of Armenia

  • Armenian Government Introduces AMD 25 Billion Business Support Package to Cushion Coronavirus Impact; Social Assistance Package In the Works | 19 March 2020 | HETG

  • Armenian government develops multi-billion business aid packages | 19 March 2020 | Armenian Press

• ​Report

  • Food Security and Vulnerability Assessment in Armenia – February 2021 | 29 March 2021 | World Food Programme

  • Food Security and Vulnerability Assessment in Armenia - November 2020 | 23 November 2020 | World Food Programme, British Embassy Yerevan
     

Austria

• Government Information

  • State aid: Commission approves €8 billion Austrian scheme to compensate companies for damage caused by coronavirus outbreak | 23 May 2020 | European Commission

  • Indexation of family benefits, child tax credit and family tax credits: Commission takes Austria to Court for discrimination | 14 May 2020 | European Commission

• Op-Ed 

  • Mitigating mass layoffs in the COVID-19 crisis: Austrian short-time work as international role model | 07 April 2020 | VOX Centre for Economic Policy Research

• ​​​Website

  • Short-time Work Before Termination: Now For All Employees | Minister for Labor, Family and Youth

  • Corona Family Hardship Fund | Minister for Labor, Family and Youth
     

Azerbaijan

• News Article 

  • ADB Approves $250 Million Loan to Support Azerbaijan’s COVID-19 Response | 07 July 2021 | Asian Development Bank 

  • MP urges social responsibility amid COVID-19 | 03 June 2020 | AzerNews

  • President: During the pandemic, our priority is people’s health and their social protection | 04 May 2020 | AzerTac

  • Minister: $126m allocated to preserve salaries of hired workers in Azerbaijan amid COVID-19 | 09 April 2020 | AzerNews
     

Belgium

• Government Information

  • Le SPF Sécurité sociale mise sur une interaction plus humaine pendant la période de quarantaine | 29 May 2020 | Service public fédéral Sécurité Sociale

  • Allocation parentale temporaire pour les travailleurs indépendants | 20 May 2020 | Service Public Fédéral Sécurité Sociale

  • Additional socio-economic and health measures in the fight against covid-19 | 11 April 2020 | Government of Belgium

  • Coronavirus: launch of the second part of the Federal Plan for Social and Economic Protection | 06 April 2020 | Government of Belgium

  • Difficultés suite au coronavirus | 22 March 2020 | Securité Sociale des Entrepreneurs Indépendents

  • Chômage temporaire à la suite de l’épidémie de CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 - Simplification de la procédure | 20 March 2020 | Office National de l'Emploi

  • Coronavirus : lancement du deuxième volet du Plan fédéral de protection sociale et économique | 20 March 2020 | Government of Belgium
     

Bulgaria

• News Article 

  • State aid: Commission approves €770 million Bulgarian employment aid scheme for preserving jobs in sectors most affected by the coronavirus outbreak | 15 April 2020 | European Commision

  • National operational HQ: Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Bulgaria now 399 | 31 March 2020 | The Sofia Globe
     

Croatia

• Government Information

  • Preservation of jobs Measure for June 2020 | June 2020 | Government of Croatia

  • Aid for job preservation - June 2020 | June 2020 | Government of Croatia

  • State aid: Commission approves €322 million Croatian loan guarantees and subsidised loans scheme for micro, small and medium-sized companies affected by coronavirus outbreak | 12 May 2020 | European Commission

• News Article

  • ZAGREB – New economic measures | 02 April 2020 | EURACTIV
     

Czech Republic

• Government Information

  • State aid: Commission approves € 866 million Czech scheme to support businesses affected by coronavirus outbreak | 27 July 2020 | European Commission 

  • Government approves COVID III guarantee programme for companies and releases 2.5 billion for Care-giver’s Allowance for SEP programme | 18 May 2020 | Government of the Czech Republic

  • State aid: Commission approves €18.5 billion Czech guarantee scheme for companies affected by coronavirus outbreak | 15 May 2020 | European Commission

• Mapping

  • Government and institution measures in response to COVID-19 | 21 April 2020 | KPM
     

Cyprus

• Government Information

  • Announcement on Employee and Business Support Measures | 10 December 2020 | Ministry of Labour, Welfare and Social Insurance Support Program for Coping with the effects of COVID-19

• News Article

  • Coronavirus: State support for workers second highest in EU | 23 June 2021 | CyprusMail 

  • Coronavirus: €700 m economic support package — some of the measures | 15 March 2020 | In-Cyprus

• ​Website

  • ​Support Program for Coping with the effects of COVID-19 | Ministry of Labour, Welfare and Social Insurance
     

Denmark

• Government Information

  • New tripartite agreement to help corona-affected families with children | 10 September 2020 | Ministry of Employment

  • The government presents new maternity scheme for the self-employed | 28 August 2020 | Ministry of Employment 

  • Majority extends sickness benefits to persons at particular risk of covid-19 infection | 26 August 2020 | Ministry of Employment 

  • Here is the list of vocational education for 110 percent unemployment benefits | 07 July 2020 | Ministry of Employment

  • Overview: These individuals are eligible for a one-time grant of DKK 1,000. | 16 June 2020 | Ministry of Employment

• News Article

  • State aid: Commission approves €93.3 million Danish schemes to support self-employed workers and freelancers affected by coronavirus outbreak | 13 July 2020 | European Commission

  • Danish corona-hit firms get state aid to pay 75% of salaries (COVID-19) | 15 March 2020 | EURACTIV with Reuters

• Op-Eds  

  • McDonald’s Workers in Denmark Pity Us | 08 May 2020 | The New York Times

  • ‘Do More—Fast. Don’t Wait.’ | 24 March 2020 | The Atlantic
     

Estonia

• Government Information / Statements  

  • The Government supported the extension of the remuneration compensation measure until the end of June | 21 May 2020 | Government of Estonia

  • The government directed an additional 147.9 million euros to the foundation of labour market services and benefits | 21 May 2020 | Government of Estonia

  • The Government approved the measure for supporting employers and workers in difficulties because of the corona virus | 20 March 2020 | Ministry of Social Affairs

• News Article

  • Estonian commissioner: Crisis may deprive large numbers of women of income | 23 March 2020 | ERR
     

Finland

• Brief

  • ​The role of social transfers in mitigating families with children from the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic | November 2022 | Wiley Online Library [New]

• Government Information

  • Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment provides an updated report on coronavirus support to companies | 02 September 2020 | Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland

  • Number of unemployed jobseekers rose in June | 21 July 2020 | Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment 

  • Government proposes temporary compensation to basic social assistance clients due to epidemic | 17 June 2020 | Ministry of Social Affairs and Health

  • Government proposes to extend temporary amendments to Unemployment Security Act to strengthen livelihoods of employees | 05 June 2020 | Government of Finland

  • Government proposes central government contributions to financing of earnings-related allowances paid during layoff | 05 June 2020 | Government of Finland

  • Government proposes to extend measures that have brought security and flexibility to labour markets during coronavirus epidemic | 05 June 2020 | Government of Finland

  • Expert group: The COVID-19 crisis has revealed the strengths and fractures of the welfare society | 04 June 2020 | Ministry Of Social Affairs And Health

  • Ministry of Social Affairs and Health appoints working group to prepare reform of Act on Social Assistance | 28 May 2020 | Ministry Of Social Affairs And Health

• News Article 

  • Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds | 07 May 2020 | The Guardian

  • Finland announces €15bn support package to prop up economy | 20 March 2020 | YLE

• Op-Ed

  • EU funding that supports investment and employment is in Finland’s interest | 02 June 2020 | The Finnish Confederation of Professionals
     

France

• Government Information 

  • Covid-19 : vers une reprise des actions de soutien à la parentalité | 28 May 2020 | Caisse d'allocations familiales

  • Covid-19 : ce que fait la Sécurité sociale / semaine du 25 mai | 25 May 2020 | Securité Sociale 

  • COVID-19 - Prestations sociales | 01 April 2020 | Gouvernement de la France

  • COVID-19: maintien de l’aide alimentaire - 31 mars 2020 | 31 March 2020 | Gouvernement de la France

• News Article

  • Covid: Dati demande un "revenu minimum" pour les étudiants précaires | 18 January 2021 | Challenge 

  • La ville de Paris va tester un « revenu universel » | 17 January 2021 | CNews 

  • Covid-19 - Indemnisation dérogatoire des arrêts de travail liés au coronavirus des salariés et non-salariés | 18 November 2020 | Wolters Kluwer 

  • France Considers New Protections for Gig Worker ‘Invisibles’ | 16 June 2020 | Bloomberg

  • Covid-19 : régime social des indemnités de frais de repas et des frais professionnels | 3 June 2020 | Actualités du droit

  • How well is France's €7 billion plan to save small businesses really working? | 22 May 2020 | The Local

  • Covid-19 : l’Unédic fait le point sur les mesures d’urgence prises en matière d’assurance chômage | 18 May 2020 | Actualité du Droit

  • Les mesures sociales du projet de loi d’urgence pour faire face au Covid-19 | 19 March 2020 | WK RH

  • Coronavirus: RSA, aide au logement ou allocation adulte handicapé seront versés automatiquement | 19 March 2020 | Le Figaro

  • Coronavirus: quelles aides pour les indépendants ? | 14 March 2020 | Le Figaro

• Statement

  • Assurance-chômage : exigeons l'annulation et de nouveaux droits | 18 May 2020 | Confédération générale du travail
     

Georgia

• Brief

  • UNICEF Georgia COVID-19 Situation Report | 07 August 2020 | United Nations Children's Fund  

  • UNICEF Georgia COVID-19 Situation Report #9 | 22 May 2020 | United Nations Children's Fund

• Government Information 

  • Registration To Receive Assistance in the Amount of 200 GEL for Children Through the Age of 17 is Taking Place on a Special Portal | 16 August 2020 | Government of Georgia

  • Update on Federal Stimulus Bill | 28 April 2020 | Government of Georgia - Department of Labor

• News Article

  • ADB Approves $200 Million Policy Loan to Support Georgia’s Economic Recovery | 29 October 2020 | Asian Development Bank

• Report

  • Assessment of the Social Protection System in Georgia: Final report | 19 January 2021 | International Labour Organization, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women 
     

Germany

• Blog

  •  Should the German social protection system be adapted following the Covid-19 crisis? | 16 July 2021 | Institute for Employment Research  of the Federal Employment Agency 

• Brief  

  • Gesetz für den erleichterten Zugang zu sozialer Sicherung und zum Einsatz und zur Absicherung sozialer Dienstleister aufgrund des Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 | 27 March 2020 | German Government

  • Gesetz zur befristeten krisenbedingten Verbesserung der Regelungen für das Kurzarbeitergeld | 14 March 2020 | German Government

• Government Information

  • Country-Based Pooled Funds: fast and flexible assistance | 30 July 2020 | Federal Foreign Office of Germany 

  • Coronavirus: arbeitsrechtliche Informationen | BMAS

• Multimedia

  • Germany seals stimulus to lift slumping economy | 04 June 2020 | Deutsche Welle

• News Article

  • Corona crisis: assistance for artists and self-employed persons from the cultural and creative industries | 02 Aug 2021 | Creative City Berlin 

  • ILO/Germany programme to protect garment workers affected by COVID-19 | 08 September 2020 | International Labour Organization

  • Wer bekommt die 300 Euro aus dem Konjunkturpaket? | 04 June 2020 | Wirtschafts Woche

  • German stimulus package hands families €300 for each child | 04 June 2020 | British Broadcasting Coorporation

  • Germany announces €130 billion stimulus package as unemployment rises in Europe | 04 June 2020 | EuroNews

  • Das hat die Koalition beschlossen | 23 April 2020 | Tagesschau.de

  • Unterstützung für Familien, die sie wegen der Corona-Pandemie brauchen | 26 March 2020 | BMFSFJ

  • Regierung beschließt Milliardenpaket gegen den Corona-Abschwung | 23 March 2020 | Zeit online

  • Coronavirus: How can workers and businesses benefit from Germany's new rescue package? (COVID-19) | 23 March 2020 | The Local

  • 2000 Euro wegen Schul- und Kitaschließung | 23 March 2020 | Boersenblatt

  • Kurzarbeit: a German export most of Europe wants to buy | 22 March 2020 | Financial Times

  • Coronavirus und Kurzarbeit: Wie Arbeitgeber Kurzarbeitergeld beantragen können | 17 March 2020 | Total Rewards

• Op-Eds 

  • Ohne den Staat geht während der Coronakrise nichts | 23 March 2020 | Handelsblatt

• Statement

  • A sustainable recovery from the coronavirus crisis | 13 May 2020 | German Council for Sustainable Development
     

Greece

• Government Information

  • State aid: Commission approves €20 million voucher scheme to support access to broadband services by students in Greece | 03 December 2020 | European Commission 

• News Article 

  • New package of support for tourism enterprises in Greece | 06 July 2020 | Tornos News 

  • Greece Offers 800 Euros to Employees Affected by Coronavirus Closures | 18 March 2020 | Greek Reporter

• ​Op-Ed

  • ​Greece must ensure safety net and integration opportunities for refugees – UNHCR | 02 June 2020 | United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
     

Hungary

• Government Information

  • ITM: wage subsidies have maintained Hungary's viability | 17 September 2020 | Government of Hungary

  • Norbert Izer: 191,000 people were employed in June by tax relief for sectors affected by the coronavirus epidemic | 09 August 2020 | Government of Hungary 

  • Shovel: Companies that can create jobs are supported by the government | 22 July 2020 | Government of Hungary 

  • Novák: the number of couples requiring baby support has exceeded one hundred thousand | 22 July 2020 | Government of Hungary

  • ITM: Workplace wage subsidies are already helping two hundred thousand people | 17 July 2020 | Government of Hungary 

  • The conditions for applying for a job-creating wage subsidy are changing | 14 July 2020 | Government of Hungary 

  • ITM: Government wage subsidies help businesses keep jobs | 29 June 2020 | Government of Hungary

  • Palkovics: Significant resources are allocated to preserving and creating jobs | 25 June 2020 | Government of Hungary

  • Minister Aladrović presented the Report on measures taken so far to preserve jobs and planned measures for the next period | 25 June 2020 | Ministry of Labor and Pension System

  • Wage subsidy programs have already helped two hundred thousand people | 12 June 2020 | Hungarian Government - Information page on the coronavirus

  • Sándor Bodó: 18.5 billion has already been paid for job protection wage subsidies | 05 June 2020 | Government of Hungary

  • Palkovich: The government provides support to 1.2 million people | 05 June 2020 | Government of Hungary

  • Kásler: on July 1, healthcare workers will receive their allowance of HUF 500,000 | 05 June 2020 | Government of Hungary

  • Palkovics: employers have already demanded support to keep their jobs 140,000 people | 02 June 2020 | Government of Hungary

• News Article

  • ITM: Wage subsidy programs have helped 270,000 people | 01 September 2020 | Government of Hungary

  • Invisible' unpaid carers going hungry in lockdown | 17 June 2020 | BBC News

  • State aid: Commission approves €1 billion Hungarian aid scheme to support companies affected by the coronavirus outbreak | 17 April 2020 | European Comission

  • Coronavirus: Hungary Expected to Receive Major EU Funds to Counter Economic Impact of Epidemic | 18 March 2020 | Hungary Today
     

Iceland

• Government Informarion

  • Notice of partial remuneration and reduced employment rate | 09 July 2020 | Directorate of Labor 

• Website

  • Payments in quarantine | Directorate of Labour
     

Ireland

• Government Information

  • Update on payments awarded for COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment and Enhanced Illness Benefit | 24 August 2021 | Department of Social Protection - Government of Ireland 

  • Pandemic Unemployment Payment will remain open for new entrants until end March 2021 | 24 November 2020 | Department of Social Protection

  • Redundancy Provisions relating to Temporary Lay-Off and Short-time Work Extended until November 30th 2020 | 15 September 2020 | Government of Ireland

  • Pandemic Unemployment Payment to remain open for new entrants | 15 September 2020 | Government of Ireland

  • Briefing on the government's response to COVID-19 - Wednesday 2 September 2020 | 02 September 2020 | Government of Ireland

  • Access to COVID-19 Enhanced Illness Benefit and the Pandemic Unemployment Payment for People in Direct Provision (multi-lingual) | 14 August 2020 | Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

  • Minister Humphreys makes €152.9 million available for Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance this year | 06 August 2020 | Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection 

  • Extension of Suspension of Redundancy Provisions relating to Temporary Lay-Off and Short-time Work | 06 August 2020 | Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection 

  • Update on Payments Awarded for Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment and Enhanced Illness Benefit | 04 August 2020 | Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

  • Cuts to pandemic welfare bill critical to managing deficit, officials warn Ministers | 29 July 2020 | The Irish Times

  • Denying unemployment payment because of travel could be open to legal challenge | 28 July 2020 | The Irish Times 

  • Update on payments awarded for COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment and Enhanced Illness Benefit | 27 July 2020 | Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

  • Some Social Welfare payments will be returning to a weekly schedule in August | 27 July 2020 | Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection 

  • Update on Payments Awarded for Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment and Enhanced Illness Benefit | 20 July 2020 | Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

  • Update on Payments Awarded for Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment and Enhanced Illness Benefit | 06 July 2020 | Government of Ireland

  • Information on the change in the rate of payment from the COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment | 06 July 2020 | Government of Ireland 

  • Changes to the COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment Updated 03.07.2020 | 03 July 2020 | Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

  • Update on Payments Awarded for Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment and Enhanced Illness Benefit | 29 June 2020 | Government of Ireland

  • COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment | 16 June 2020 | Government of Ireland

  • Illness benefit for COVID-19 absences | 16 June 2020 | Government of Ireland

  • Update on payments awarded for COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment and Enhanced Illness Benefit | 15 June 2020 | Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

  • Minister Zappone announces funding package of €75M for Reopening Early Learning and Childcare Services | 10 June 2020 | Government of Ireland

  • Update on payments awarded for COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment and Enhanced Illness Benefit | 02 June 2020 | Government of Ireland

  • Temporary COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme | 24 March 2020 | Government of Ireland

  • Government agrees next phase of Ireland’s Covid-19 response | 9 March 2020 | Government of Ireland

• News Article

  • Irish COVID-19 jobless claims continue steady fall | 30 March 2021 | Reuters
  • Government issue updates on five key Covid benefit schemes as lockdown continues | 17 February 2021 | Irish Mirror

  • More than 400,000 face tax bills for Covid wage subsidies | 14 January 2021 | The Irish Times

  • Covid-19: Nearly 58,000 more on pandemic unemployment payment than in December | 05 January 2021 | The Irish Times

  • Number of people receiving pandemic unemployment payment tops 350,000 | 23 November 2020 | The Irish Times

  • Taskforce recommends basic income scheme for artists | 17 November 2020 | Raidió Teilifís Éireann

  • 18,500 people had PUP stopped after investigations by the Department of Social Protection | 11 August 2020 | Irish Examiner

  • Nearly 600,000 people issued Pandemic Unemployment Payments today | 27 April 2020 | NewsTalk

  • ‘Generous’ Covid-19 benefits encouraging people to leave jobs - economist | 21 April 2020 | Irish Times

  • COVID-19 Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme | 07 April 2020 | Mondaq

  • Almost 90% of applicants receive Covid-19 unemployment payment | 02 April 2020 | Irish Times

  • Weekly Covid-19 payment has risen to €350 – who will get it? | 24 March 2020 | The Irish Times

  • Coronavirus unemployment payment to rise to €350 per week and Government to pay 70pc of retained workers' salaries | 24 March 2020 | Independent

  • Coronavirus Ireland: When social welfare recipients will get two-week payments as An Post issues statement | 23 March 2020 | Irish Mirror

  • COVID-19 social welfare payments due tomorrow | 19 March 2020 | Dublins 102

• Op-Ed

  • Irish government commits to basic income experiment | 09 July 2020 | Basic Income Today 

  • Ireland’s next government has committed to trialing UBI within five years | 17 June 2020 | Basic Income Today

• Report

  • Statistical Information On Social Welfare Services Annual Report 2020 | 09 August 2021 | Government of Ireland 

  • ​COVID-19 and the Irish welfare system | 21 June 2021 | Economic & Social Research Institute 

• Webinar 

  • Department of Employment Affairs & Social Protection Webinar | 19 March 2020 | Irish Exporters Association

• Website 

  • COVID-19: Social Welfare information | Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed
     

Italy

• Blog

  • ​The impact of the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy | 11 September 2020 | Transforming Society

• Government Information

  • COVID-19: wage supplement for workers with an obligation to stay at home | 26 January 2021 | Ministry od Labor and Social Policies

  • COVID-19: employee leave due to DAD of the under-fourteen-year-old son | 16 December 2020 | Ministry of Labor and Social Policies 

  • State aid: Commission approves €44 billion Italian recapitalisation scheme to support large companies affected by coronavirus outbreak | 17 September 2020 | European Commission

  • COVID-19 leave: new indications from INPS | 04 September 2020 | Ministry of Employment and Social Policies

  • COVID-19: indennità di maternità e paternità per le lavoratrici e i lavoratori autonomi | 05 August 2020 | Ministero del Lavoro e delle Politiche Sociali 

  • "Health relaunch" for a stronger health service closer to citizens | 21 May 2020 | Government of Italy

• News Article

  • 'Stopgap' or life saver? Italy's scheme to help the self-employed survive the coronavirus crisis | 30 May 2020 | The Local 

  • State aid: Commission approves Italian guarantee scheme to support the economy in coronavirus outbreak | 14 April 2020 | European Commision

  • Mafia distributes food to Italy's struggling residents | 10 April 2020 | The Guardian

  • Italy Unveils ‘Unprecedented’ $435 Billion Plan To Support Coronavirus-Hit Economy | 07 April 2020 | Forbes

  • Italy sets aside €400m for food vouchers as social unrest mounts | 29 March 2020 | The Guardian

  • Reddito di cittadinanza: pagamenti regolari, stop obblighi di lavoro per due mesi | 19 March 2020 | QuiFinanza

  • Italy approves parental leave, grants for the self-employed | 17 March 2020 | EURACTIV

  • Italy supports coronavirus-hit economy, PM hails 'Italian model' | 16 March 2020 | Reuters

  • Italian government proposes vouchers for babysitters and payment of 80% of wages in response to coronavirus | 15 March 2020 | Time 24
     

Kazakhstan

• Government Information 

  • Results in social sphere for 5 months of 2020: Restoring employment and providing new types of support | 26 June 2020 | Official Information Source of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan

  • Обеспечение занятостью и соцвыплаты населению: какие меры принимает государство в период ЧП | 07 April 2020 | Government of Kazakhstan

• News Article 

  • Kazakhstan: President unveils more coronavirus mitigation plans | 01 April 2020 | Eurasia.net

• Report

  • Kazakhstan’s Social Policy Response to Covid-19: Developmentalism and Productive Welfare | April 2021 | Global Dynamics of Social Policy 
     

Kosovo

• Legal Document

  • Kosovo | Fiscal Measures and Fiscal Emergency Package for Business Organizations | 05 May 2020 | Global Legal Group

• News Article

  • Prime Minister Hoti Presents Recovery Package Measures | 09 June 2020 | Ministria e Financave

• Report

  • ​Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP) - Kosovo Social Assistance System Reform Project | 25 August 2021 | World Bank 

Kyrgyzstan

• Brief

  • Poverty, Food Security and Nutrition Analysis in the context of COVID-19 and the role of Social Protection in the Kyrgyz Republic | October 2021 | World Food Programme 

  • WFP Kyrgyz Republic Country Brief, May 2020 | 23 June 2020 | World Food Programme

• News

  • ​Covid-19 socio-economic shocks posing serious threat to food and nutrition security of the people of the Kyrgyz Republic | November 2021 | WFP 
     

Latvia

• News Article

  • Child care benefit during COVID-19 to remain available in Latvia next year
     | 08 December 2020 | Baltic News Network 
     

Lithuania

• Government Information

  • Approved budget of 2021: child money, pensions, allowances and the minimum wage will increase | 28 December 2020 | Ministry of Social Security and Labour of the Republic of Lithuania

  • Approved aid package after quarantine: 1.4 million Lithuanians will benefit | 12 May 2020 | Ministry of Social Security and Labour of the Republic of Lithuania

• News Article

  • State aid: Commission approves €101.5 million Lithuanian rent compensation scheme to support sectors affected by coronavirus outbreak | 30 April 2020
     

Luxembourg

• Government Information 

  • Rappel: les demandes de chômage partiel pour le mois d'août doivent être introduites le 12 juillet au plus tard | 09 July 2020 | Ministère de l'Économie 

  • Le formulaire pour demander le chômage partiel en ligne jusqu'au 31 décembre 2020 est disponible sur Guichet.lu | 20 June 2020 | Le Gouvernement du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg

  • Échanges entre le gouvernement et les partenaires sociaux au sujet de l'impact sociétal, budgétaire et économique de la crise COVID-19 | 10 June 2020 | Ministère de la Sécurité sociale

  • Délai pour introduire le décompte dans le cadre du régime de chômage partiel pour cas de force majeure COVID-19 | 05 June 2020 | Government of Luxembourg

  • Introduction of a new emergency fund for self-employed workers (EUR 3,000, 3,500 or 4,000) | 05 June 2020 | Guichet - Government of Luxembourg

  • Leave for family reasons in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic covering the period from 25 May to 15 July 2020 | 20 May 2020 | Guichet - Government of Luxembourg

  • Coronavirus Covid-19 // Programme de Stabilisation de L’économie | March 2020 | Government of Luxembourg​

  • Measures at the level of social security contributions to be implemented in the context of the COVID-19 crisis by the Joint Social Security Centre | 19 March 2020 | Luxembourg Government

• ​Website

  • ​Application for certificate of leave for family support in the context of fighting Covid-19 | Guichet - Government of Luxembourg
     

Malta

• News Article 

  • State aid: Commission approves €215 million Maltese employment aid scheme to support sectors affected by coronavirus outbreak | 24 April 2020 | European Commission

  • Malta revamps rescue package to focus on workforce protections | 25 March 2020 | SPC News
     

Moldova

• Brief

  • ​Welfare Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Moldova: Main Channels and Impact of Mitigation Measures - Summary Note | May 2021 | International Labour Organization 

• Government Information

  • Almost 4,000 people to receive financial assistance on behalf of Chisinau city hall | 14 September 2020 | State News Agency Moldpres 

  • Right to pension to be requested including by proxy in Moldova | 16 July 2020 | State News Agency Moldpres

  • More beneficiaries of pensions, state social allocations of Moldova to receive one-off assistance worth 700 lei | 15 July 2020 | State News Agency Moldpres

  • Draft on allowance provided to descendants of medical employees dead in fight with COVID-19 to be published in Moldova's Official Journal | 25 June 2020 | State News Agency Moldpres

  • Moldovan parliament approves rectification of social insurance budget law | 24 April 2020 | State News Agency Moldpres

• News Article 

  • Moldova's govt prepares 815 mln lei (41 mln euro) coronavirus relief package | 02 April 2020 | SeeNews

• Website

  • COVID response: Social protection | United Nations Development Programme
     

Montenegro

• Brief

  • Montenegro Country Report | 03 July 2020 | CoronaNet

• Government Information  

  • PM Marković presents Government's new package of economic measures to recover from coronavirus pandemic: Recovery path will not be easy, but we will come out of this stronger | 09 April 2020 | Government of Montenegro

• ​Report

  • The UN Socio-Economic Response Plan to COVID-19 in Montenegro | August 2020 | United Nations Sustainable Development Group 

  • COVID-19 and the World of Work: Rapid Assessment of the Employment Impacts and Policy Responses Montenegro | 25 June 2020 | International Labour Organization
     

Netherlands

• News Article 

  • ‘We are working on migrant worker housing problem,’ minister tells MPs | 25 May 2020 | DutchNews.nl

  • El plan de Ámsterdam para relanzar su economía ante el coronavirus apuesta por romper con el actual modelo de consumo | 15 April 2020 | El Diário

  • Employment Alert COVID-19 (Netherlands) | 16 March 2020 | JdSupra
     

North Macedonia

• Government Information

  • From the 46th session of the Government: The citizens will be able to decide on their own will to donate the return from “My DVD” to the COVID-19 Budget; facilitated access of households at risk to the social assistance right | 14 May 2020 | Government of the Republic of North Macedonia

• News Article

  • N. Macedonia to grant interest-free loans to coronavirus-hit MSMEs | 18 March 2020 | See News
     

Norway

• Government Information

  • Government exploring subsidies scheme for non-EU/EEA citizens to return home | 15 May 2020 | Government of Norway

• News Article 

  • Norway’s Workers Insisted They Shouldn’t Pay for Coronavirus — And They Won | 19 March 2020 | Jacobin Magazine

• ​​​Statement

  • To avert a Covid-triggered famine, our global food systems need to change | 22 May 2020 | Government of Norway
     

Poland

• Government Information

  • State aid: Commission approves € 1.6 billion Polish scheme to compensate companies for damages suffered due to coronavirus outbreak and provide liquidity support | 29 May 2020 | European Commission

  • Prime Minister in the Podlaskie Voivodeship: We are saving jobs through government support | 21 May 2020 | Government of Poland

• News Article 

  • State aid: Commission approves €115 million Polish scheme to support economy in coronavirus outbreak | 10 April 2020 | European Commision

  • Over 340,000 aid applications under coronavirus shield - minister | 07 April 2020 | The First News
     

Portugal

• ​Brief

  • A proteção social em destaque | 27 November 2020 | International Labour Organization

  • Portugal : Rapid assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on the economy and labour market | 26 June 2020 | International Labour Organization

• Government Information

  • Conheça as medidas do Governo para apoio ao emprego e às empresas | Governo de Portugal

  • Governo toma medidas extraordinárias para responder à epidemia de Covid-19 | 19 March 2020 | Government of Portugal

• News Article

  • Trabalhadores sem proteção social já podem pedir novo apoio. Mês e meio depois, há formulário | 08 September 2020 | Eco News

  • Escolas de Lisboa entrega merenda escolar durante a paralisação das aulas | 25 May 2020 | Programa Cidades Sustentáveis

  • Em Portugal, pedidos de auxílio-desemprego disparam entre jovens | 25 May 2020 | Portal UOL

  • Almost 32,000 Portuguese companies have already resorted to 'lay-off' | 05 April 2020 | The Portugal News

  • Presidente da República diz que Portugal vai precisar muito do setor social depois da pandemia de Covid-19 | 25 March 2020 | SIC Notícias

  • Covid-19. Como vai funcionar o apoio aos recibos verdes? | 14 March 2020 | Sabado

• ​Report

  • ​Portugal: Uma análise rápida do impacto da COVID-19 na economia e no mercado de trabalho | 02 September 2020  | International Labour Organization
     

Romania

• News Article

  • Romania’s PM announces first measures to help the economy deal with Covid-19 effects | 19 March 2020 | Romania-Insider 

• Op-Ed

  • Reforms Key to Romania’s Resilient Recovery | 23 July 2021 | World Bank​
     

Russia

• Op-Ed 

  • The basic income in Russia - are you serious? | May 2020 | Alexander Solovev, Valery Mokrenko
     

Scotland

• Government Information

  • UK Government supports over 936,000 jobs across Scotland | 21 August 2020 | Government of the United Kingdom

  • Coronavirus support measures help 65,000 businesses in Scotland | 07 August 2020 | Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland

  • UK Government supports nearly 900,000 jobs across Scotland | 15 July 2020 | Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland 

• News Article

  • Child payment rollout hindered by data concerns | 22 June 2021 | Britsh Broadcast Corporation 

  • New Report in Scotland backs 3-year basic income experiment with 17,000 recipients | 12 June 2020 | Basic Income Today

  • Backing for £200m pilot of citizens income | 11 June 2020 | The Herald

  • Coronavirus prompts Scotland’s first minister to make UBI a policy priority | 05 May 2020 | Basic Income Today

• Op-ed

  • ​Opinion: Universal Credit should be a safety net, not an obstacle course | 28 July 2021 | The Herald
     

Serbia

• Government Information 

  • Assistance for 14,000 most vulnerable women in Serbia | 10 April 2020 | Government of Serbia

• News Article 

  • Isplata 60 evra za nezaposlene 14. juna, potvrdilo Ministarstvo finansija | 08 June 2021 | N1 Srbija 

  • One million citizens of the Republic of Serbia applied for 100 € in the first 5 hours | 13 May 2020 | b92

  • Fin Min: Two billion Euro in loans for Serbia's firms, money for farmers too | 16 April 2020 | N1

  • "You do not have to pay taxes and contributions now, the state will pay" | 01 April 2020 | B92

  • Serbia’s Govt. to help employees in mid-May; € 100 to every citizen | 31 March 2020 | N1

• Report

  • Socio-Economic Response to Coronavirus Challenges: Comparative Study of Serbia and the Selected European Countries | December 2021 | University of Belgrade

  • COVID-19 and the World of Work: Rapid Assessment of the Employment Impacts and Policy Responses Serbia | 02 September 2020 | International Labour Organization
     

Slovakia

• Government Information

  • We will distribute more than EUR 30 million for the employment of people | 03 August 2020 | Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic

  • Extension of the unemployment benefit period in times of crisis (extension of the entitlement to unemployment benefit) | 17 July 2020 | Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic 

  • Minister Krajniak proposes to increase the minimum wage to 620 euros | 15 July 2020 | Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic

  • Changes in cash contributions to compensation | 01 July 2020 | Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic 

  • More than 300 million euros have already gone to employers and SZČO | 22 June 2020 | Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic

  • The ministry will support 5,000 jobs | 05 June 2020 | Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic

• Website

  • First aid for employees, entrepreneurs and sole traders | Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic
     

Slovenia

• Brief

  • ​Investing in Youth: Slovenia | 21 June 2021 | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 

• Government Information

  • Government adopts the third anti-corona package | 20 May 2020 | Government of the Republic of Slovenia

• News Article 

  • ANTICORONA PACKAGE – current measures to assist employers | 10 April 2020 | Jadek Pensa
     

Spain

• Blog

  • From Covid-19 to the cost-of-living crisis: Poor social protection is Spain's Achilles heel | 18 July 2022 | El Pais

  • From Crisis Comes Opportunity: Spain’s Basic Income Response to COVID-19 | 01 July 2020 | United Nations Children's Fund

• Government Information

  • In Spain, coronavirus puts the poor at the back of the line | 05 November 2020 | American Broadcasting Company 

  • La Seguridad Social registra 18.792.376 afiliados en agosto, 6.822 más que en julio | 02 September 2020 | La Moncloa

  • La Seguridad Social suma 161.217 ocupados en julio hasta un total de 18.785.554 | 04 August 2020 | La Moncloa

  • La Seguridad Social pone en marcha un protocolo informativo con las comunidades autónomas para mejorar la gestión del Ingreso Mínimo Vital | 27 July 2020 | La Moncloa

  • La Seguridad Social registró 2.030.477 ocupados extranjeros de media en junio | 21 July 2020 | La Moncloa 

  • Díaz propone alternativas para un futuro "avanzando en un trabajo estable y con derechos" como "alma de la reconstrucción" | 01 July 2020 | Gobierno de España 

  • La Seguridad Social efectúa el primer pago del Ingreso Mínimo Vital | 26 June 2020 | La Moncloa

  • El Gobierno alcanza un acuerdo con los agentes sociales para prorrogar los beneficios de los ERTE hasta el 30 de septiembre | 25 June 2020 | La Moncloa

  • ¿Conoces a ISSA? Es el nuevo asistente virtual para facilitar la búsqueda de información y los trámites relacionados con la Seguridad Social | 09 June 2020 | Ministerio de Inclusión, Seguridad Social y Migraciones

• News Article

  • Así es la prórroga de los ERTE, las ayudas para autónomos y los alquileres aprobada por el Gobierno | 26 January 2021 | elDiario.es

  • Spain to extend temporary lay-off schemes for 800,000 workers | 14 January 2021 | Euroactiv

  • Estas son las reformas que pide la UE a España a cambio de los 140.000 millones del fondo de recuperación | 22 July 2020 | El Diario 

  • Former UN expert decries Spain's 'utterly inadequate' social protection system | 06 July 2020 | The Guardian 

  • España mantuvo a trabajadores migrantes “completamente desprotegidos” durante la pandemia, dice experto de la ONU | 26 June 2020 | United Nations

  • Spain rekindles a radical idea: a Europe-wide minimum income | 03 June 2020 | The Guardian

  • El ingreso mínimo vital llegará al triple de hogares pobres de los que ahora reciben rentas mínimas | 25 May 2020 | El diario

  • Díaz expone ante el Senado el programa de acción del Ministerio de Trabajo y Economía Social y el objetivo "urgente" de combatir la precariedad | 25 May 2020 | Murcia.com

  • Radiografía de la pobreza en España: en cabeza en la UE y con los hogares con niños como principales afectados | 23 May 2020 | El diario

  • El Gobierno aprobará el ingreso mínimo vital para hogares de escasos recursos en el último Consejo de Ministros de mayo | 18 May 2020 | El diario

  • Coronavirus: Spain set for basic income to ease crisis pain | 18 May 2020 | BBC News

  • Spain to pay basic income to help poorest weather coronavirus | 17 April 2020 | Reuters

  • Spain is moving to establish permanent basic income in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic | 06 April 2020 | Business Insider

  • Qué es el ingreso mínimo vital que dice preparar el gobierno y en qué se diferencia de la renta básica | 06 April 2020 | Magnet

  • Coronavirus: Spain to become first country in Europe to roll out universal basic income | 06 April 2020 | The Independent

  • El Gobierno ampliará el acceso al bono social a desempleados que lo estén por culpa del coronavirus | 21 March 2020 | ABC

  • Spain unveils ‘unprecedented’ €200 billion coronavirus package | 18 March 2020 | EURACTIV

  • Spain’s homeless centres continue to care as coronavirus takes a hold | 14 March 2020 | EuroWeekly

  • Escrivá anuncia una prestación extraordinaria para los padres que tengan que cuidar a sus hijos | 11 March 2020 | El Pais

• Op-Ed 

  • Spain’s new minimum income scheme: a victory and a historic failure | 06 July 2020 | Open Democracy

  • Las condiciones del ingreso mínimo vital para familias afectadas por la crisis del coronavirus sin derecho a paro | 01 June 2020 | El Diario

  • Juan Torres: "Si no se garantiza el ingreso de las empresas, una renta básica no podría evitar el colapso posterior" | 10 April 2020 | El diario.es
     

Sweden

• Blog

  • Labour market effects of COVID-19: Sweden and its Scandinavian neighbours | 12 September 2020 | VOX Centre for Economic Policy Research

• News Article

  • Swedish investors lead the way in surge of social bond issuance | 15 April 2020 | The Asset

  • Sweden changes sick pay rules to help fight coronavirus | 11 March 2020 | The Local 

• ​Op-Ed

  • Sweden’s constitution decides its exceptional Covid-19 policy | 18 June 2020 | VOX Centre for Economic Policy Research Portal

  • ​Sweden, the pandemic and precarious working conditions | 10 June 2020 | Social Europe
     

Switzerland

• Government Information

  • Coronavirus: Simplified regulations for ALV are being extended | 26 August 2020 | Federal Department of Economics, Education and Research 

  • Corona virus: Consultation on additional funding for unemployment insurance opened | 02 July 2020 | The Federal Council

  • Coronavirus: Short-time work allowance: Extension of the reference period to 18 months | 01 July 2020 | The Federal Council 

  • Coronavirus: Zusätzliche Finanzierung für die Arbeitslosenversicherung und schrittweiser Ausstieg aus den COVID-Massnahmen | 20 May 2020 | Government of Switzerland

  • Coronavirus: Unterstützung für die familienergänzende Kinderbetreuung | 20 May 2020 | Government of Switzerland

• News Article

  • Coronavirus: Swiss government locks down nation | 13 March 2020 | LeNews
     

Sweden

• Government Information

  • Unemployed people matched to green industries | 27 May 2020 | Government of Sweden

  • New measures to strengthen care of the elderly and health care during the COVID-19 crisis | 12 May 2020 | Government of Sweden

  • Reinforced measures for employees and businesses | 07 May 2020 | Government of Sweden

  • Measures to address increased vulnerability due to the coronavirus | 07 May 2020 | Government of Sweden

• Statement

  • Water, sanitation and hygiene: World Leaders' Call to Action on COVID-19 | 14 May 2020 | Government of Sweden
     

Tajikistan

• News Article 

  • Tajikistan: Protecting Children’s Health During COVID-19 | 17 November 2020 | The World Bank

  • Coronavirus: European Commission strengthens health and other key services in Tajikistan with €112 million | 22 July 2020 | European Commission

  • Tajikistan Gets World Bank Financing to Responde to COVID-19 Pandemic | 02 April 2020 | The World Bank

• Report

  • Preparing social protection systems for shock response A case study of UNICEF’s experiences in Tajikistan | January 2021 | United Nations Children's Fund
     

Turkmenistan

• Report

  • Immediate Socio-Economic Response Plan to Acute Infectious Disease Pandemic for Turkmenistan | August 2020 | United Nations Sustainable Development Group
     

Ukraine

• Brief

  • 7 policy messages, 6 reasons and 3 phases of Social protection measures to mitigate the consequences of COVID-19 caused economic decline on vulnerable children in Ukraine | April 2021 | United Nations Children's Fund 

• News Article

  • More than 25,000 Ukrainians apply for partial unemployment benefits | 12 May 2020 | Kyiv Post

• Op-Ed 

  • Zelensky signs law on social and economic guarantees during Covid-19 pandemic | 02 April 2020 | Ukrinform
     

United Kingdom

• Blog 

  • Beyond furlough: why the UK needs a permanent short-time work scheme | 12 August 2021 | Trades Union Congress

  • The impacts of the government’s coronavirus income support schemes across different age groups | 14 September 2020 | The London School of Economics and Political Sciences

  • The UK labour market and COVID-19: how to measure excess, where to look for it, and what it shows | 28 July 2020 | London School of Economics and Political Science 

  • Lost your job or income as a result of Covid-19? Living with a partner? You may get nothing from Universal Credit | 30 June 2020 | University of Bath 

  • Despite the suspension of conditionality, benefit claimants are already looking for work | 29 June 2020 | London School of Economics and Political Science 

  • Direct cash transfers to households: the Bank of England’s response to COVID-19 and the end of orthodoxy | 12 June 2020 | London School of Economics and Political Science

  • Back of the queue: Self-employed workers during and after the COVID-19 crisis | 11 June 2020 | London School of Economics and Political Science

  • COVID-19: how the UK’s economic model contributes towards a mismanagement of the crisis | 30 march 2020 | London School of Economics

  • The fallout from the global spread of Coronavirus may change the way we look at social protection forever | 25 March 2020 | socialprotection.org

• Brief

  • Rescue and recovery: Covid-19, jobs and income security | 16 August 2020 | The Progressive Policy Think Tank

  • Universal Credit in the Time of Coronavirus | 09 June 2020 | New Economics Foundation

• Government Information 

  • 274 councils set to receive housing support for vulnerable people | 17 September 2020 | Government of United Kingdom

  • New payment for people self-isolating in highest risk areas | 27 August 2020 | Government of United Kingdom 

  • Millions of self employed to benefit from second stage of support scheme | 17 August 2020 | Government of the United Kingdom 

  • £20 million to improve small business leadership and problem-solving skills in the wake of coronavirus | 03 August 2020 | Government of United Kingdom 

  • Jenrick launches £266 million housing fund for vulnerable people | 18 July 2020 | Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government 

  • Government to protect UK research jobs with major support package | 27 June 2020 | Government of United Kingdom

  • £105 million to keep rough sleepers safe and off the streets during coronavirus pandemic | 24 June 2020 | Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

  • Health and Social Care Secretary's statement on coronavirus (COVID-19): 8 June 2020 | 08 June 2020 | Department of Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom

  • Examples of how to work out 80% of your employees' wages, National Insurance contributions and pension contributions | 22 May 2020 | Government of United Kingdom

  • Claim for wages through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme | 21 May 2020 | Government of United Kingdom

  • Home Office extends bereavement scheme to NHS support staff and social care workers | 20 May 2020 | Government of United Kingdom

  • Check if you can claim a grant through the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme | 04 May 2020 | Government of United Kingdom

  • COVID-19: guidance for employees | 26 March 2020 | United Kingdom Government

  • Coronavirus support for employees, benefit claimants and businesses | 13 March 2020 | Department for Work and Pensions

• Multimedia

  • Weekly economics podcast: can we avoid a tsunami of job losses? | 22 July 2020 | New Economics Foundation

• News Article

  • English families get extended support with food and utility bills | 22 June 2021 | GOV.UK 

  • A Family Stimulus – Supporting Children, Families and the Economy through the Pandemic | 04 February 2021 | Development Pathways

  • Covid-19: Insurance fears stop care homes taking patients | 14 January 2021 | British Broadcasting Corporation

  • COVID-19 provokes a surge in unemployment benefit claims in the UK, with claimants encountering a system that is “cruel, inhumane and degrading” and the “second harshest in the world” | 26 June 2020 | Development Pathways

  • Anti-poverty campaigners call for child benefit increase as lockdown leaves families struggling to buy food | 22 June 2020 | Chronicle Live

  • London faces surge in rough sleepers as coronavirus funding runs out in June | 26 May 2020 | The Guardian

  • Government announces £76m to support vulnerable in lockdown | 02 May 2020 | The Guardian

  • Social policy academics say raise Child Benefit to help families in crisis | 31 March 2020 | London School of Economics

  • Almost 500,000 people in UK apply for universal credit in nine days | 25 March 2020 | The Guardian

  • Coronavirus: ‘How is £94 a week going to pay anyone’s bills?’ | 24 March 2020 | BBC News

  • UK under pressure to offer urgent aid to 5 million self-employed | 23 March 2020 | The Guardian

• Op-Eds 

  • Benefit cuts focus debate on shape of post-Covid safety net | 13 July 2021 | Financial Times 

  • Give families cash, not paltry food parcels | 14 January 2021 | The Guardian

  • Covid crisis is a chance to adapt and evolve the UK’s welfare state | 07 December 2020 | Financial Times 

  • Mayor of Greater Manchester calls for UBI to aid the UK’s recovery from coronavirus. | 10 July 2020 | Basic Income Today 

  • To save the British economy, don’t just open shops – give people the cash to spend at them | 19 June 2020 | Basic Income Today

  • From now, policies must put young people first. Starting with the triple-lock pension | 19 June 2020 | The Guardian

  • Creating a hyperlocal infrastructure of care: COVID-19 Mutual Aid Groups | 12 June 2020 | Open Democracy

  • Universal Basic Income Is Key to U.K. Recovery, Think Tank Says | 12 June 2020 | Basic Income Today

  • We need to build on the furlough scheme, not cut it, to avoid mass unemployment | 07 May 2020 | The Guardian

  • UK workers hit by the economic pain of coronavirus need an income guarantee | 07 April 2020 | The Guardian

  • 3 Points Of Concern On Government's Much-Needed Economic Package | 28 March 2020 | NDTV

• Reports

  • Women’s economic empowerment in the face of Covid-19 and displacement | 21 October 2021 | Rescue UK

  • Social protection inclusion policy reponses to the COVID-19 crisis United Kingdom 2021 | September 2021 | European Social Policy Network

  • Did the UK policy response to Covid-19 protect household incomes? | 06 August 2021 | The Journal of Economic Inequality 

• Website  

  • Cash Hub British Red Cross | British Red Cross
     

Uzbekistan

• Blog

  • Speeding up digital transformation to tackle COVID-19 in Uzbekistan | 19 August 2020 | United Nations Development Programme 

• News Article

  • Social protection system resilient to the challenges of the world | 16 December 2020 | Joint Sustainable Development Goals Fund

  • Uzbekistan: Charities resist government monopolization of social protection | 26 August 2020 | Eurasianet 

  • UN works together with the Government of Uzbekistan on strengthening social protection system | 05 June 2020 | United Nations Uzbekistan

  • Uzbekistan allocates funds, suspends international passenger traffic amid COVID-19 threat | 20 March 2020 | Trend

• Report

  • Uzbekistan COVID-19 Situation Report. 24 July 2020 (Russian) | 24 July 2020 | United Nations Uzbekistan
     

Regional

• Blog  

  • COVID-19 and social security contributions: evolution in Europe | 15 February 2021 | International Social Security Association

  • The Global Fund for Social Protection: an idea whose time has come | 17 November 2020 | Social Europe

  • Setting the stage to withstand the crisis | 06 August 2020 | Food and Agriculture Organization 

  • Regularizing Migrant Workers in Response to COVID-19 | 28 July 2020 | Center for Global Development 

  • Gender and Social Protection during COVID - A fight for equality | 23 July 2020 | Sustainable Development Goals Watch Europe 

  • Amid COVID-19, a solution that cares for people and benefits the economy | 22 July 2020 | United Nations Development Programme 

  • One region, one health: Preparing Central Asia for future pandemics | 20 July 2020 | The World Bank 

  • Minimum wages in 2020: Will COVID-19 derail the quest for fair pay? | 07 July 2020 | Eurofound

  • Why has the pandemic increased support for Universal Basic Income? | 22 June 2020 | London School of Economics and Political Science

  • Welfare states need reinforcement, not reinvention | 18 June 2020 | Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

  • Emerging from the Great Lockdown in Asia and Europe | 12 May 2020 | International Monetary Fund 

  • Valuing life differently: migrants and the coronavirus crisis | 01 May 2020 | Social Europe

  • Unions’ responses to the Covid-19 crisis in Europe | 01 May 2020 | Social Europe

  • Europe is turning to an age-old German work scheme to protect jobs from Covid-19 | 30 April 2020 | Quartz

  •  Jobs at risk: Policy responses to COVID-19 in emerging markets | 21 April 2020 | VoxEU

  • Tackling the long-term impact of coronavirus in Europe and Central Asia | 17 April 2020 | United Nations Development Programme

  • Fighting COVID-19 in Europe and Central Asia: Saving Lives versus Protecting Jobs? | 05 April 2020 | The World Bank Blogs | 07 April 2020 | Forbes

• Brief 

  • Covid (In)equalities: labor market protection, health, and residential care in Germany, Sweden, and the UK | 16 February 2022 | Nick Ellison, Paula Blomqvist, Timo Fleckenstein 

  • The mental health crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic in older adults and the role of physical distancing interventions and social protection measures in 26 European countries | 28 December 2021 | Ana Mendez-Lopez, David Stuckler, Martin McKee, Jan C. Semenza, Jeffrey V. Lazarus 

  • Welfare Resilience at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Selection of European Countries: Impact on Public Finance and Household Incomes | 01 July 2021 | Olga Cantó, Francesco Figari, Carlo V. Fiorio, Sarah Kuypers, Sarah Marchal, Marina Romaguera-de-la-Cruz, Iva V. Tasseva, Gerlinde Verbist 

  • Protecting livelihoods in the COVID-19 crisis: A comparative analysis of European labour market and social policies | 06 June 2021 | Global Social Policy 

  • Taking stock of COVID-19 policy measures to protect Europe’s elderly living in long-term care facilities | 23 May 2021 | Global Dynamics of Social Policy

  • Non-standard Workers and the Self-employed in the EU: Social Protection During the Covid-19 Pandemic | 12 March 2021 | Spasova, Slavina and Ghailani, Dalila and Sabato, Sebastiano and Coster, Stéphanie and Fronteddu, Boris and Vanhercke, Bart 

  • A CHILDCARE INFRASTRUCTURE FUND Protecting early years provision in England | 26 June 2020 | New Economics Foundation

  • Growing inequality can worsen the pandemic’s effects | 18 June 2020 | German Development Institute, Development Data Group, World Bank

  • Affordability of long-term care services among older people in the OECD and the EU | May 2020 | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

  • The effectiveness of social protection for long-term care in old age: Is social protection reducing the risk of poverty associated with care needs? | 28 April 2020 | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

  • Public employment services in the frontline for jobseekers, workers and employers | 28 April 2020 | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

  • Minimum income schemes to ensure dignity for all | 24 April 2020 | Caritas Europe

  • Living, working and COVID-19 First findings – April 2020 | April 2020 | Eurofound

  • Protecting Employment In The Time Of Coronavirus | April 2020 | Centre for European Policy Studies

  • Sick pay and social protection-related interventions: extraordinary measures to protect workers in times of Covid19 | 31 March 2020 | Europe Trade Union

  • Family-friendly policies and other good workplace practices in the context of COVID-19: Key steps employers can take | March 2020 | United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

• Government Information

  • EU contributes €183 million to debt relief for 29 of the world's poorest and most vulnerable countries | 23 November 2020 | European Commission

  • Coronavirus: European Commission calls for action in protecting seasonal workers | 16 July 2020 | European Commission

  • Inform # 1 – EU and OECD Member States Responses to managing residence permits and migrant Unemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic | July 2020 | European Commission

  • MEPs demand unprecedented support measures for EU firms and workers | 24 June 2020 | European Parliament

  • EU employment and social affairs ministers to discuss the importance of flexible working methods, upskilling and reskilling, and gender equality in the recovery from the COVID-19 crisis | 09 June 2020 | Government of Finland

  • "Team Europe" global response to COVID-19: Council welcomes the mobilisation of almost €36 billion and approves conclusions | 08 June 2020 | European Council

  • Fair minimum wages: Commission launches second-stage consultation of social partners | 03 June 2020 | European Commission

  • European Semester Spring Package: Recommendations for a coordinated response to the coronavirus pandemic | 20 May 2020 | European Commission

  • Coronavirus global response: EU allocates additional €50 million in humanitarian aid | 20 May 2020 | European Commission

  • COVID-19: Council adopts temporary support to mitigate unemployment risks in an emergency (SURE) | 19 May 2020 | European Parliament

  • Questions and answers: Commission proposes SURE, a new temporary instrument worth up to €100 billion to help protect jobs and people in work | 02 April 2020 | European Comission

  • Persons with disabilities must not be left behind in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic | 02 April 2020 | Commissioner for Human Rights - Council of Europe

  • Latest conclusions from the Council of Europe Committee of Social Rights: threats for the social rights of women and migrants | 31 March 2020 | Council of Europe Committee of Social Rights

  • Statement of the European Social Partners on the COVID-19 emergency | 24 March 2020 | European Social Partners 

• Legal Document

  • Decision on providing macro-financial assistance to enlargement and neighbourhood partners in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic | 18 May 2020 | European Parliament

• News Article 

  • COVID-19 and Social Rights: Statement by the European Committee of Social Rights | 22 April 2021 | European Council

  • Job guarantees and free money: 'Utopian' ideas tested in Europe as the pandemic gives governments a new role | 23 November 2020 | Cable News Network 

  • El BCE aumenta su artillería contra la pandemia en 600.000 millones y prevé que la eurozona necesitará dos años para recuperarse de la crisis | 04 June 2020 | El diario

  • Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian government ministers are calling for the creation of a European minimum income system | 27 May 2020 | Basic Income Today

  • France, Germany propose 500 billion euro EU Recovery Fund | 18 May 2020 | Reuters

  • Government announces £76m to support vulnerable in lockdown | 02 May 2020 | The Guardian

  • En quoi consiste le mécanisme européen de réassurance chômage ? | 10 April 2020 | Toute l'Europe

  • Europe and Central Asia: Health Systems, Safety Nets, and Support to Businesses All Critical to Protecting Lives and Livelihoods | 08 April 2020 | The World Bank

  • Coronavirus: EU response to fight the pandemic | 08 April 2020 | European Commission

  • A response to the corona crisis in Europe based on solidarity | 06 April 2020 | Federal Foreign Office

  • WHO/Europe works with European Commission to fight COVID-19 in countries across eastern Europe and the Caucasus | 02 April 2020 | World Health Organization

  • Coronavirus: Commission mobilises all of its resources to protect lives and livelihoods | 02 April 2020 | European Comission

  • ETUC reveals measures won by unions to protect jobs and wages across Europe | 27 March 2020| Europe Trade Union

  • The race to save jobs: European governments step in to pay wages | 25 March 2020 | France 24

  • Protecting children now and in the future - Eurochild public statement on COVID-19 | 25 March 2020 | Eurochild

  • Short Time Work Measures Across Europe | 24 March 2020 | Europe Trade Union

  • This is how Europe is helping companies and workers as the coronavirus crisis deepens |16 March 2020 | World Economic Forum

• Op-Ed 

  • Where is social inclusion in the national recovery plans? | 30 April 2021 | Euractiv

  • The COVID-19 recovery needs a green, social, digitally skilled Europe | 14 September 2020 | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

  • The critical role of paid sick leave in the COVID-19 health and labour market crisis | 08 July 2020 | VOX Centre for Economic Policy Research 

  • How non-standard workers are affected and protected during the Covid-19 crisis: Stylised facts and policy considerations | 30 June 2020 | VOX Centre for Economic Policy Research Portal 

  • Women’s work, housework, and childcare before and during COVID-19 | 19 June 2020 | VOX Centre for Economic Policy Research Portal

  • Inequality and poverty effects of the lockdown in Europe | 16 June 2020 | VOX Centre for Economic Policy Research Portal

  • Impuestos a las multinacionales, a las compañías digitales y al carbono: así quiere financiar Bruselas su plan de recuperación | 30 May 2020 | El Diario

  • UBI and the pandemic: all or nothing changed? | 29 May 2020 | Social Europe

  • History repeating itself? The impact of the Covid-19 crisis on youth | 25 May 2020 | Social Europe

  • Millions of Europeans could not endure a two-month income shock without generous, targeted, government policies | 25 May 2020 | VOX Center for Economic Policy Research Policy Portal

  • Encouraging European solidarity: an unconditional basic income | 18 May 2020 | Social Europe

  • Building food security during the pandemic | 07 May 2020 | New Europe

  • Immigrant key workers in Europe: The COVID-19 response that comes from abroad | 05 May 2020 | VOX Center for Economic Policy Research Portal

  • In-work poverty in times of pandemic | 27 April 2020 | Social Europe

  • Europe’s social safety nets were not ready for the corona shock | 21 April 2020 | Social Europe

  • Financing the COVID-19 deficit when you are short of money: Beware of copy-cat policymaking | 13 April 2020 | VOX Centre for Economic Policy Research

  • Mitigating the work-security trade-off while rebooting the economy | 09 April 2020 | VOX Centre for Economic Policy Research

  • EU solidarity in exceptional times: Corona transfers instead of Coronabonds | 05 April 2020 | VOX Centre for Economic Policy Research

  • A progressive European wealth tax to fund the European COVID response | 03 April 2020 | VOX Centre for Economic Policy Research

  • The new inequalities and people-to-people social protection | 02 April 2020 | VOX Centre for Economic Policy Research

  • The future of work in the post-Covid-19 digital era | 01 April 2020 | Social Europe

  • Building effective short-time work schemes for the COVID-19 crisis | 01 April 2020 | VOX Centre for Economic Policy Research

  • Social protection pays off | 25 March 2020 | Social Europe

  • Keeping business alive: the government will pay | 18 March 2020 | Social Europe

• Report

  • Social rights and equality in the light of the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic | 8 Jun 2022 | European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) 
  • Social protection for atypical workers during the pandemic | March 2022 | ETUI 
  • Toward a Resilient Recovery – Battling the Pandemic in Europe and Central Asia | 01 December 2021 | World Bank
  • Integration Policy Brief I - Leave no one behind: Promoting effective access of refugees in social protection systems in post-pandemic Europe (September 2021) | 17 September 2021 | United Nations High Commisioner for Refugees 
  • Social protection and inclusion policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis An analysis of policies in 35 countries | September 2021 | European Social Policy Network 
  • Employment and Social Developments in Europe | 06 July 2021 | European Commission 
  • Economic Recovery Plans Essential in EU and Croatia to Delivering Inclusive and Green Growth that Shields Households at Risk of Poverty | 26 July 2021 | World Bank
  • Where Do Rich Countries Stand on Childcare? | June 2021 | United Nations Children's Fund 
  • COVID-19: Implications for employment and working life | 23 March 2021 | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
  • COVID-19 in North and Central Asia: Impacts, Responses & Strategies to Build Back Better | February 2021 | United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
  • COVID-19 Relief Programs and Compliance with Confinement Measures | January 2021 | Institute of Labour Economics 

  • 2020 Annual Report of the Social Protection Committee | November 2020 | European Commission 

  • Supporting Families and Children Beyond COVID-19: Social protection in Southern and Eastern Europe and Central Asia | August 2020 | United Nations Children's Fund Office of Research - Innocenti

  • Rapid assessments on the impact of COVID-19 on enterprises in four Western Balkan countries reveal significant disruption and job loss but also readiness to resume operations | 26 August 2020 | International Labour Organization

  • Social Protection in the Western Balkans – Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis | 27 July 2020 | Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

  • The impact of COVID-19 on women's and men's lives and livelihoods in Europe and Central Asia | 17 July 2020 | United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

  • COVID-19 and social protection in Europe and Central Asia: A moment of opportunity to expand and strengthen social protection mechanisms to safeguard health, well-being and livelihoods, leaving no one behind | June 2020 | United National Regional Coordination Mechanism Europe and Central Asia; United Nations Sustainable Development Group Europe and Central Asia 

  • COVID-19: Policy responses across Europe | 24 June 2020 | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

• Statement

  • SOLIDAR Position paper: EU initiative on minimum wages | June 2020 | Solidar

  •  Child Guarantee is urgently needed to reduce poverty | 14 May 2020 | Caritas Europe

• Website 

  • Coronavirus response | European Commission

  • COVID-19 Resources and News | Eurochild

  • COVID response: Social protection | United Nations Development Programme - Europe and Central Asia