I’ll put most of my post here, so that it doesn’t clutter the place with something that might not be interesting for most people:
Read only if you are interested in the details of our system of monetary help during the corona virus
Hey, don’t beat them down too much.
My accountant is one of my best friends from school, so I hear a lot about the problems. He is livid with all that pile of forms and applications that the government tossed on him to fill, not to mention that everyone and their dog is ringing his phone to ask him about it.
So, I was actually trying to be impartial. If he was around to describe the system, we would have had to put a large X-rated banner on the whole thread 
It was a hastily made attempt to try to help the economy, yes it’s not perfect but
but it could have been made easier and fairer for everyone.
Example: Everyone should have made just ONE application in order to inform the government of their IBAN which is the only piece of data really missing from the government. The tax agency knows what kind of work everyone does (there are codes for them) so they could have automatically assigned and checked which employer corresponded to those codes or not and automatically discerned everything.
The same applies for the employees. The government insurance agency has that data already. Why do we all have to go through this convoluted system that taxes the morale of everyone involved in such a difficult time? If anything goes wrong and someone that was supposed to receive some money failed to go through the hoops (or, even worse, they closed the hoops on them) then you can imagine the infighting between employee, employer and accountants.
Also the system could have been fairer too. We should all have taken less money and more people should have been the beneficiaries. I elaborate:
It makes sense for me, who I was ordered to stand down from my work from the government, to take some monetary compensation. Good.
Doesn’t it make sense for the supermarket cashiers who are risking their health to keep those shops open, to get a monetary reward for their service in such trying times ?
Personally I am feeling bad about all those people that have to keep showing up on their jobs, while we are told to “stay home - stay safe”. Shouldn’t they get something ? Of course they should. But they won’t. Why? Because instead of trying to find an easy and fair system, they opted for the “confusing, exclusionary and convoluted” package as they always do ( all our governments we have had in my lifetime do that. I am not being political here)
this hasn’t happened,
“yet” is the magic word here.
The fact of the matter is - and I checked that a couple of days ago - that according to the directives you cannot even log in into the platform if your number does not finish to the correct corresponding day AND you cannot even apply if your employer hasn’t applied first and declared you in a correct manner.
This does mean that if your employer was not feeling in the mood to go through that, you get nothing. Not even the ability to apply, even though the government knows that you work in a place that was shut down.
they’ll probably give more days, like they always do.
They will, like they always do.
And it will be a mess, like it always is
but at least they felt responsible enough to give funds to the people during a pandemic
The promise of money is the only thing keeping people in and relatively calm.
It was not a matter of responsibility, but of gaining time.
That is why they made the process so lengthy and convoluted 
Plus it is very crucial to be able to point at someone else to deflect responsibility.
If someone failed to complete the process, the government can always blame the employers or the accountants. But if they were to do this automatically and in a simple manner, they would have had noone to put the blame on if things didn’t go well.
“Deflection of responsibility is an art” as an army lieutenant told us once during training. And if a small cog in the civil service knew that, you can bet good money that the big cogs know it too.
On to the more general stuff:
Consider this with the coronavirus
Assuming that there will be a smooth transition out of the coronavirus crisis, then everything that goes wrong in the coming months and every thing that the governments fail to accomplish, it will be blamed on the virus. It will be the sixth standard excuse in the classic routine:
