The cabinet estimates that rent support aimed at tenants with an effort percentage of more than 35% will cost 250 million euros per year during the five years that the measure is in force.
The estimate of the cost of one of the measures that make up the Mais Habitação program is included in the Stability Program (SP) 2023-2027, presented this week, which also indicates that an identical measure, but aimed at mitigating the impact of the rapidly rising interest rate on home loans, rising to 200 million euros in 2023.
The sum of the expenditure on both types of measures should amount to 450 million euros in 2023. In the following years, the annual expenditure is 250 million euros for rent allowance.
The measure aimed at tenants provides that they receive support if their effort level (part of the household income reserved for the payment of the rent) exceeds 35% and whose rental contract has been concluded on 15 March.
The aid in question is granted ex officio, with a limit of EUR 200 per month, and can be granted for a maximum of 60 months (five years).
To qualify, renters must have income up to the maximum value of the IRS’s 6th step — in light of the values entered by the state budget for 2023.
The support is paid until the 20th of each month, except when the value is less than 20 euros, in which case it is paid every six months.
In the first payment, beneficiaries will receive the amount accumulated since the beginning of the year, as the government decided to introduce the measure retroactively to the beginning of the year, although it only came into effect in March.
“The first aid payment for the calendar year 2023 will calculate all amounts due since January 1, 2023,” reads the decree-law that entered into force on March 23.
On the other hand, it should be remembered that the aid measure for the payment of interest on loans taken out for the purchase of own and permanent housing has a maximum annual value equal to 1.5 social support indices (IAS), ie EUR 721. the measure is not expected to take effect until 2023, “without prejudice to any extension”.
Source: DN
