The government announced on Tuesday to have opened until the end of August to intermittent workers requests for emergency aid, instituted in the face of the health crisis in 2020 and renewed in 2021.
The specific emergency solidarity fund for performing artists and technicians (Fussat) was set up in September 2020, initially endowed with € 7 million. In March, the government raised it to 17 million euros.
Aid of 1,500 euros
It provides for a new “single flat-rate aid” of 1,500 euros, in four specific situations, “subject to receiving no unemployment insurance allowance”, explained the Ministry of Culture in a press release. This Emergency Fund adds to it a “single flat-rate aid of 150 euros per canceled date, under conditions”, within the limit of 1,500 euros for intermittents who receive unemployment benefits, and without limit for those who are deprived of it.
Applications are made online on a website managed by the mutual society of performing arts, Audiens. This system is in addition to that of the “white year”, which exempts from the obligation of 507 hours of work minimum over 12 months to continue to receive unemployment benefits, due to cancellations of cultural events due to the pandemic. of Covid-19. The Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot quantified in early July at more than 12 billion euros public support for culture since the start of this health crisis in 2020.