The President of the Republic announced on Monday the diploma of the Assembly of the Republic that limits the updating of rents to 2% for 2023, reduces VAT on electricity supplies and establishes a transitional regime for updating pensions.
“By emphasizing the importance and urgency of the measures adopted and taking into account the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court on pensions, the President of the Republic today promulgated the decree of the General Assembly of the Republic that the rent update coefficient for 2023 creates exceptional support to rent, to reduce VAT on electricity supplies, to introduce a transitional scheme for updating pensions, to establish a scheme for the redemption of savings plans and to determine the unattractiveness of support to families”reads the note published on the official website of the presidency of the republic.
Parliament approved the final version of the government diploma on September 22, which includes measures to mitigate the impact of the price increases, including the version that sets for 2023 a different update of pensions than the one foreseen in the current law.
The diploma was approved, in a general final vote, with votes for PS and Chega, votes against by PSD, IL, PCP and BE and abstentions by PAN and Livre.
As happened in the specialty, in the plenary all amendments of the opposition were rejected.
It concerns the government’s proposal to establish a transitional scheme for updating pensions in 2023, with increases between 4.43% and 3.53% depending on the amount earned by pensioners, after the executive branch has passed a legislative decree approved. in October, equivalent to half board.
This package also includes the ‘brake’ on rents, which will see an increase in 2023 limited to 2% and the reduction of VAT from 13% to 6% for consumption up to 100 kWh of electricity per month.
The final text of the Committee on Budget and Finance only included the proposals presented by the PS in the specialty, including the inviolability of exceptional support to families.
This inviolability includes the extraordinary and non-repeatable support of 125 adults who are not retired and whose gross monthly income does not exceed 2,700 euros.
Without the possibility of being pledged, there is also the complement equal to half pension paid to retirees in October, and this PS proposal was unanimously approved.
In addition, the PS presented two other amendment proposals, also approved in the specialty, one that reinforces that lease contracts to be updated with a value higher than the coefficient of 2% are not covered by the tax benefit (in terms of from IRS or IRC) aimed at landlords and aimed at compensating them for the brake imposed.
At the same time, and as a measure to strengthen household income in the current context of high inflation and price increases, the PS has also made a proposal that allows the redemption of savings plans (in PPR and PPR/E versions) without penalty. up to the monthly limit of the Social Support Index (IAS), the measure applies until December 31, 2023.
Because the PS-bank voted against, all amendment proposals from the opposition parties were rejected.
On the way, among other things, was the PSD proposal which aimed to provide pensioners with the €125 aid that the government will give to active citizens in October, and to maintain the statutory pension updating regime for 2023.
Also, the proposals of the Left Bloc and the PCP that limited the update of rents in 2023 to the value observed in 2022 (0.43%) or the reduction of VAT on electricity and gas to 6% and transversal failed.
Source: DN
