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The PAN spokeswoman regretted this Monday that the increase in pensions by 3.57% will only take effect from July and will not be accompanied by the payment of retroactive quotas.
In a statement on his Twitter accountInês Sousa Real concludes that the pension update announced by the President of the Government “results from the Basic Law on Social Security and the State Budget, which provided for the provisional increase based on the verified budget balance.”
“The interim increase in pensions announced as of July, of 3.57%, comes to justify the PAN alert, when in September of last year we said that the additional pensions delivered last year resulted, in practice, in a cut in pensions”, he writes.
Pensions: PCP considers the increase of 3.57% late and insufficient and proposes a goal of 9.1%
According to Sousa Real, the measure announced by António Costa “It’s actually an increase in half.”
“The country needs stability, that the law is complied with and that we are not always in a current management logic, particularly in an inflationary context like the one we have been experiencing and not leave pensioners at the mercy of the government’s obsession with calls.” certain accounts’”, considers the PAN spokesperson.
Retirees will have, as of July, a 3.57% increase in their pensions, announced António Costa, at the end of an extraordinary Council of Ministers that approved new income support measures.
“Following the Stability Program, we held an extraordinary Council of Ministers that approved a provisional increase in pensions starting next July, for an amount of 3.57%”, said the Prime Minister.
Source: Observadora
