Luxembourg's Ministry of Culture has announced the reintroduction of additional support measures for independent professional artists and intermittent entertainment workers in the context of stricter COVID-19 health measures.
This specifical state aid scheme will be reintroduced in Luxembourg until 28 February 2022.
Created in 2020, this aid scheme aims to compensate independent professional artists and intermittent entertainment workers whose sources of income are directly affected by the new legislative provisions concerning gatherings in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Wednesday 22 December 2021, the Government Council approved the draft Grand-Ducal regulation reintroducing this aid scheme until the end of February 2022, i.e. the period during which the damaging impact of the health measures on the cultural activities of such artists may result in additional financial aid, in accordance with the amended law of 19 December 2014 relating to social measures for the benefit of independent professional artists and intermittent entertainment workers and the promotion of artistic creation.
This financial aid scheme guarantees in particular:
- social assistance for independent professional artists, with the possibility of paying monthly social assistance up to the minimum social wage for skilled workers (instead of 50% of the minimum social wage for skilled workers in "normal" times);
- additional daily allowances for intermittent entertainment workers, i.e. up to 20 daily allowances per month, in the event of involuntary inactivity, compared to the 121 daily allowances provided for in “normal” times.
The related procedures will be published shortly on guichet.lu.
