Around 9,000 self-employed people and small businesses in Saxony are already exempt from repaying emergency coronavirus aid. Around 90 percent of the more than 10,000 applications submitted since July 2025 have been approved, according to a statement from the Ministry of Finance. Only 280 cases were rejected. The remaining cases have yet to be processed.
Exemption for financially weak companies
Last July, the state parliament decided to ease the repayment of emergency coronavirus aid so as not to overburden companies. This included exemption from repayment claims. The total income from the 2023 tax return must be less than 35,000 euros net and assets must not exceed 40,000 euros.
In 2020, the federal government's coronavirus emergency aid was intended to cushion financial bottlenecks for micro-enterprises and the self-employed caused by the first coronavirus lockdown. In Saxony, over 84,000 recipients received more than 672 million euros. However, as they were often able to resume their activities much earlier than assumed when they applied, the grants were higher than provided for in the program.
