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Idle time benefit for persons conducting business activity

It is a one-time benefit in the amount of PLN 2 080 or PLN 1 300, which is to compensate you for the loss of income from your business activity.

For whom?
Persons engaged in economic activity, under the law of the entrepreneurs or other special provisions, if they have had a downtime following COVID – 19.

What conditions do you have to meet to receive support?

You will receive an idle time benefit of PLN 2 080 if:

  • You started your business activity before 1 February 2020 (you have not suspended your activity) and the income you received in the month before the month in which you applied for the parking benefit:
  • was at least 15% lower than the revenue you received in the previous month,
  • did not exceed the amount calculated as 300% of the average monthly salary from the previous quarter announced by the President of the CSO on the basis of the regulations on pensions from the Social Insurance Institution (FUS) in force on the day of application submission.
  • You started your business activity before 1 February 2020, but you suspended it after 31 January 2020 and the income you received in the month before the month in which you applied for the parking benefit did not exceed the amount calculated as 300% of the average monthly salary from the previous quarter announced by the President of the Central Statistical Office on the basis of the regulations on pensions from the Social Insurance Institution (FUS) in force on the day of application submission.
  • You have no other title to social security.
  • You live on the territory of Poland and are a citizen of the Republic of Poland or have the right of temporary or permanent residence on the territory of Poland.

You will receive an idle benefit of 1 300 PLN if:

  • You settle the tax by tax card and are exempt from paying VAT.
  • You have no other title to social security.
  • You live on the territory of Poland and are a citizen of the Republic of Poland or have the right of temporary or permanent residence on the territory of Poland.

What you gain?

  • You will receive funds (PLN 2 080 or PLN 1 300) to compensate for the loss of income from your business activity.
  • You will receive a one-time withdrawal to your bank account.

How to apply?

  • To receive an idle benefit you must apply to ZUS for a parking benefit (RSP-D)
  • Applications for parking benefit may be submitted to the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) at the latest within 3 months of the month in which the declared epidemic was lifted.
  • You may submit a request:
  • electronically by PUE ZUS
  • electronically via PUE ZUS, via the gov.pl website
  • via post,
  • personally in a ZUS facility – to a document box (without contact with a ZUS employee)

How will we contact you?

  • If we have any doubts about the application, we will contact you by e-mail or telephone.
  • If your application is successful, you will receive a parking benefit on account of.
  • You will have a decision refusing the parking benefit at PUE ZUS or we will send it by post. 

Can you appeal against the decision?

  • If you do not agree with the decision to refuse the parking benefit, you can appeal to the court (according to the rules of the Code of Civil Procedure), through ZUS. You shall submit your appeal in writing within one month of receiving the decision.

Where will you get help?

  • On working days (Mon. – Fri.) from 7 am to 3 pm at telephone numbers:
    • 22 290 87 02,
    • 22 290 87 03,
  • On working days (Mon-Fri) from 7 a. m. to 6 p. m. at the national helpline

22 560 16 00 – select “0” (you will connect with the ZUS Call Center consultant and then select the subject of the call 7 – support for entrepreneurs).

https://www.zus.pl/baza-wiedzy/biezace-wyjasnienia-komorek-merytorycznych/-/publisher/details/1/swiadczenie-postojowe-dla-osob-prowadzacych-dzialalnosc-gospodarcza/3264488

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