The government has been meeting since 3.30pm in an extraordinary council of ministers convened to approve a package of family income support measures designed to mitigate the effects of the rise in the cost of living. O The meeting was scheduled to start at 3:00 PM, but António Costa arrived at Palácio da Ajuda about half an hour later.
The package of measures to be adopted by the executive should amount to around two billion euros, including support for families (announced today) and businesses (announced after the Council of Energy Ministers of the European Union, scheduled for next years). Friday).
One of the decisions that could come today from the extraordinary council of ministers is the granting of a check for 100 euros to families, to help support the rise in energy and food costs.
In addition to the recipients of a minimum social benefit and the social energy tariff – who were awarded a 60 euro food basket this year – middle-class households can also fall under this 100 euro check.
Another possible measure is to advance to retirees part of the increase planned for next year, through automatic updating of pensions, calculated on the basis of the average annual growth of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the last two years and calculated inflation in November of this year.
Source: DN
