Government grants 90,000 dinars to folk and pop performers as coronavirus assistance

Snezana Babic Sneki, Photo: Marko Jovanovic

Some singers who enjoy the status of independent artists have received financial assistance from the state, at the request of the Independent Trade Union of Show Business Artists of Serbia (SEMUS), which asked the Ministry of Finance for financial assistance for its members.

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These claims have been confirmed by Dragisa Golubovic, the president of SEMUS.

"This assistance was given to musicians and singers who have the status of independent artists and have not retired, but are active, who are still working. Among them are Ivan Gavrilovic, Snezana Babic Sneki, Marko Bulat, Beki Bekic, Jelena Brocic and many others. The money was given because of coronavirus, three times 30,000 dinars per month, a total of 90,000 to their accounts, with everything being paid at once. That significantly helped people," Dragisa pointed out.

"On behalf of the Independent Trade Union of Show Business Artists and Performers of Serbia, we sent a request to the Ministry of Finance to approve additional funds for independent workers in the field of culture, i.e. for musicians and singers who do not have the status of independent artists, who live exclusively from their work and on that basis are registered with the pension fund and pay their own contributions. We hope that they will approve that as well," Golubovic told the daily Kurir.

"This information is correct. I must commend SEMUS and its president. We received 90,000 dinars from them, which means something to some, to those who earn a lot perhaps not so much. The city of Belgrade pays towards my pension fund, based on everything we did in the 1990s, we had a lot of humanitarian campaigns," singer Ivan Gavrilovic pointed out, confirming that he received the said financial assistance.

(Telegraf.rs)