Malta Enterprise is reviewing more than 1,500 grants of the COVID-19 wage supplement for potential abuse. “As part of an ongoing exercise throughout the scheme, Malta Enterprise kept reviewing applications... to stop any abuse wherever beneficiaries were found to be ineligible” a spokesperson said. “Following the closing of the grants scheme... Malta Enterprise continued to review the assistance granted and make sure that all beneficiaries who took a wage supplement were effectively entitled to it.” The agency “is reviewing 1,550 cases”, the spokesperson confirmed. During the course of the COVID-19 wage supplement scheme, over €800 million was distributed to approximately 120,000 employees by the agency. Earlier this month, a claimant told Times of Malta that they had been contacted by Malta Enterprise and ordered to repay the wage supplement which they had received throughout the coronavirus pandemic. In total, they were paid over €4,000. Describing a feeling of hopelessness, the 25-year-old ruled out appealing the decision, saying it was a “lost battle already”. The claimant, who not wish to be named, explained they had received the supplement for their part-time work as a...
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