 ▲ 홍남기 부총리 겸 기획재정부 ©기획재정부 |
브레이크뉴스 문홍철 기자= 정부가 2일 제9회 국무회의에서 ‘2021년도 추가경정예산안’을 의결, 4차 맞춤형 피해지원대책 19조5000억원을 편성했다. 추경안 15조원과 기정예산 활용 4조5000억원으로 구성됐다.
특히, 추경안 15조원은 △피해계층 지원금 8조1000억원 △고용충격 대응 2조8000억원 △백신등 방역소요 4조1000억원 등 3가지 분야로 구성됐다. 이중 ‘피해계층 지원금’ 8조1000억원은 지난 3차 버팀목자금 지원금 4조1000억원의 약 2배 수준이다.
홍남기 경제부총리 겸 기획재정부 장관은 이날 정부서울청사에서 ‘4차 맞춤형 피해지원대책’ 합동브리핑을 열고, “이번 총대책비 19조5000억원 지원을 통해 그 수혜대상이 3차 피해지원대책보다 약 200만명 이상 늘어난 총 690만명의 국민들이 지원혜택을 받게 될 것이다”고 밝혔다.
먼저, 홍 부총리는 “기존 버팀목 자금 지원에 이어 6조7000억원 규모의 ‘버팀목 플러스+ 자금’이 지급된다”며 “상시 근로자수 5인 이상 사업체도 포함해 중규모 음식점과 학원 등 사업체 40만개가 추가되고, 일반업종 매출한도도 기존 4억원에서 10억원으로 높여 매출 4억원 초과 편의점 등 사업체 24만개도 지원대상에 포함한다”고 말했다.
이어 “방역조치와 업종별 피해수준에 따라 차등화 해실내체육시설 등 연장된 집합금지업종 11만5000개는 500만원이, 학원 등 완화된 집합금지업종 7만개는 400만원이 지급된다”며 “또한, 카페와 식당 등 집합제한업종 96만6000개는 300만원, 매출이 20% 이상 감소한 경영위기 일반업종 26만400개는 200만원, 매출이 감소한 일반업종은 종전과 같이 100만원(243만7000개)이 지급된다”고 설명했다.
아울러 1인이 다수 사업체(16만개)를 운영하는 경우 종전 중복 지원이 허용되지 않았으나, 이번에는 최대 2배까지 추가 지원된다.
홍 부총리는 “버팀목 플러스+ 자금은 기존 대비 105만개가 늘어난 총 385만 업체가 지원혜택을 받게 될 것”이라며 “소상공인의 경영부담을 추가로 덜어드리고자 지난 2월 24일 발표했던 사회보험료 및 전기·도시가스 3개월 납부유예에 더해 방역조치 대상 소상공인 115만명의 전기요금을 집합금지업종은 50%, 제한업종은 30%씩 3개월간 감면코자 한다. 이 경우 집합금지업종 경우 사례에 따라 최대 180만원 한도까지 감면혜택을 받는 경우도 생길 것이다”고 말했다.
고용 취약계층에게도 6000억원 수준의 ‘고용안정지원금’ 지원된다. 홍 부총리는 “우선, 4600억원을 투입해 소득이 감소한 특고, 프리랜서 80만명에게 긴급고용안정지원금을 지원한다”며 “승객감소로 어려움을 겪는 법인소속 일반택시기사 8만명에게 종전보다 20만원 인상된 70만원을 지급하고, 필수노동자인 노인요양보호사 등 방문돌봄 종사자를 보호하기 위해 소득기준을 완화해 종전 9만명에 6만명을 추가 지원하겠다”고 전했다.
계속해서 “소득감소 등 어려움을 겪는 한계근로빈곤층에 대해서는 간편심사 절차를 거쳐 80만가구를 대상으로 50만원의 한시생계지원금 총 4000억원을 지급한다”며 “생계가 불안한 노점상의 경우 지자체 등에서 관리중인 4만명에 대해 사업자 등록시 소득안정지원자금 50만원을 지급하고, 제도권 밖의 영세노점상에 대해서는 한시생계지원금을 통해 최대한 생계안정을 지원코자 한다”고 설명했다.
학부모의 실직·폐업 등으로 경제적 위기에 빠진 대학생 1만명에게는 특별 근로장학금을 5개월간 250만원이 지급(총 250억원)된다.
2조8000억원 규모의 ‘긴급 고용대책’은 △고용유지 △일자리 창출 △취업지원 서비스 △돌봄 및 생활안정 등 4가지 축으로 구성됐다.
홍 부촐리는 “24만명의 일자리를 유지하기 위해 2500억원을 투입, 기존에 시행중인 집합제한·금지업종에 대한 고용유지지원금 지원비율 90% 특례적용을 6월까지 3개월 연장한다”며 “이번에 새로 선별한 여행·공연업 등 ‘경영위기 10개 업종’으로까지 그 90% 특례적용을 확대해 지원한다”고 말했다.
이 외에도 단축·유연근무 등 가정친화적 제도를 도입하는 기업에 대한 인센티브와 가족돌봄휴가 사용 근로자 돌봄비용 지원을 위해 1000억원 이상이 투입되며, 저소득 근로자와 장기 직업훈련생 등의 생활안정을 위해 약 2만명을 대상으로 910억원 규모의 생계비 저리(1~1.5%) 융자도 확대 지원된다.
한편, 2021년 기정예산 사업을 활용해 마련한 4조500억원 규모의 ‘피해지원 패키지’에서는 중소기업과 소상공인의 긴급한 경영자금을 지원하기 위해 3조2000억원 규모의 금융지원방안이 마련됐다.
고용유지기업 지원을 위해 대출 후 1년간 고용을 유지할 경우, 2%대 금리를 1%까지 낮춰주는 ‘조건부 초저금리 융자’가 신설된다. 청년을 고용한 소상공인에게는 최대 1억원의 ‘청년고용특별자금’을 공급하면서 1년간 고용유지시 금리를 우대(0.4%p)한다.
고용창출기업 지원을 위해 창업을 통해 고용을 창출했거나, 고용우수 중소기업에 6000억원 규모의 융자자금이 조기공급된다.
또한, 소상공인이 폐업 후에도 지역신보 보증상환을 일정기간 유예할 수 있도록 브릿지보증을 2000억원 규모로 신규 공급하고, 경영애로를 겪고 있는 수출중소기업과 관광업계 등을 대상으로 신속한 유동성 공급을 위한 긴급경영안정자금이 확대 지원된다.
아래는 위의 글을 구글번역이 번역한 영문의 <전문>이다. [Below is an English <Full text> translated by Google Translate.]
Hong Nam-ki, 4th Disaster Subsidies “Up to 5 million won for small businessmen and 6.9 million total national benefits”
-Reporter Moon Hong-cheol
At the 9th state council meeting on the 2nd, the government voted for the “2021 Supplementary Compensation Budget,” and organized the 4th customized damage support measure of 1.95 trillion won. It consisted of an additional 15 trillion won and a fixed budget of 4.5 trillion won.
In particular, the additional 15 trillion won was composed of three areas: △Support for the victims of 8,100 billion won, △2.8 trillion won for employment shock response, and △4.1 trillion won for quarantine such as vaccines. Among them, the ‘subsidy for the victims’ amounting to 8,100 billion won is about twice the amount of the 4,100 billion won in the last 3rd support fund.
Hong Nam-ki, Deputy Prime Minister of Economy and Ministry of Strategy and Finance, held a joint briefing for the '4th Customized Damage Support Countermeasures' at the Seoul Government Complex on the same day and said, “Through the support of 19.500 billion won in total countermeasures, the beneficiaries are about 2 million people than the third damage support countermeasure A total of 6.9 million people, who have increased more than this, will receive support benefits.”
First of all, Deputy Prime Minister Hong said, “Following the existing support fund, a 6.7 trillion won worth of'Support + + Fund' will be provided.” “Including businesses with 5 or more regular workers, 400,000 businesses such as mid-sized restaurants and academies will be added. Also, by raising the sales limit for general industries from 400 million won to 1 billion won, 240,000 businesses such as convenience stores with sales exceeding 400 million won are also included in the support.”
He added, “It is differentiated according to the quarantine measures and the level of damage by business type, and 5 million won for 115,000 extended collective prohibited businesses such as indoor sports facilities, and 4 million won for 70,000 relaxed collective prohibited businesses such as academies." 966,000 restricted businesses such as cafes and restaurants are 3 million won, 26,400 business-crisis general businesses with a decrease of more than 20% in sales are 2 million won, and general businesses with reduced sales are 1 million won (2437,000) as before. Is paid.”
In addition, if one person operates multiple businesses (160,000), redundant support was not previously allowed, but this time, additional support is up to twice as much.
Deputy Prime Minister Hong said, “A total of 3.85 million companies will receive support benefits, an increase of 1.05 million units compared to the previous year, and the social insurance premiums and electricity and electricity that were announced on February 24 to further relieve the management burden of small business owners. In addition to the three-month delay in paying city gas, the electricity bill for 1.15 million small businesses subject to quarantine measures will be reduced by 50% for the collective prohibited business and 30% for the restricted business for 3 months. In this case, depending on the case of the collective prohibited industry, there will be cases where the maximum reduction in benefits will be given up to 1.8 million won.”
The “employment stabilization subsidy” of 600 billion won is also provided to the underprivileged. Deputy Prime Minister Hong said, “First of all, by investing 460 billion won, we will provide emergency employment stabilization support to 800,000 freelancers. He said, “We will provide 700,000 won and provide additional support for 60,000 people to the previous 90,000 by easing the income standard to protect visiting care workers, such as elder care workers, who are essential workers.”
“For the marginalized working poor who are experiencing difficulties such as income reduction, a total of 500 billion won in temporary livelihood subsidies of 500,000 won will be paid to 800,000 households through a simple screening process.” “In the case of street vendors with unstable livelihoods, they are being managed by local governments. For 40,000 people, when registering as a business, an income stabilization support fund of 500,000 won will be paid, and for small street vendors outside the system, we will provide support for stable livelihoods as much as possible through a temporary livelihood subsidy.”
A special labor scholarship of 2.5 million won for five months is provided to 10,000 college students who are in economic crisis due to the unemployment or closure of their parents (total of 25 billion won).
The “emergency employment countermeasures” worth 2.8 trillion won consisted of four pillars: △retention of employment, △job creation, △employment support service, and △care and life stability.
“We will invest 250 billion won to maintain the jobs of 240,000 people, and extend the 90% special application of the support ratio of employment maintenance subsidies to the existing collective restrictions and prohibited industries by three months until June.” He said, “We will expand the application of 90% of the special cases to the '10 business types at risk of management', such as the newly selected travel and performance industries,” he said.
In addition, more than 100 billion won will be invested to provide incentives to companies that introduce family-friendly systems such as shortened and flexible work, and to support caring expenses for workers who use family care leave, and about 20,000 people are provided to stabilize the lives of low-income workers and long-term vocational trainees. A loan of 91 billion won worth of living expenses (1~1.5%) is also extended.
Meanwhile, in the “damage support package,” worth 4.5 trillion won, prepared by utilizing the fixed budget project in 2021, a financial support plan worth 3.2 trillion won was prepared to support urgent management funds for SMEs and small business owners.
In order to support employment holding companies, a “conditional ultra-low interest loan” will be established, which lowers the interest rate from the 2% level to 1% if the job is maintained for one year after the loan. Small business owners who hired young people are provided with a maximum of 100 million won in “youth employment special funds,” and the interest rate is given preferential treatment (0.4%p) when maintaining employment for one year.
In order to support job-creating companies, employment is created through startups, or a loan of 600 billion won is provided early to small and medium-sized enterprises with excellent employment.
In addition, a new bridge guarantee for 200 billion won will be provided so that small business owners can postpone the repayment of the local new report for a certain period of time even after the business is closed, and emergency management stabilization for rapid liquidity supply to export small and medium-sized enterprises and tourism industries, etc., which are experiencing management difficulties. Funding is extended.
