Fernando Medina, in an interview with RTP on Tuesday night, defended again that the option for pensioners was to give a bonus in October. “The measure is decided to ensure extraordinary support now that people need it most.”
The next year, he defended himself again, and since there is now an extraordinary payment, he makes sure that the increases due by the formula are given. The Government has a very clear principle, pensioners do not lose in 2023. We are still far from 2024, much is different now than a year ago when a set of decisions was made.
The principle of the Government is always the same: “we must not give away what we cannot guarantee that we will keep”. And he repeated: “We can never give what we are not sure we will not keep. It is a bad memory of the time when they were promised and given things that were later withdrawn. We’re not going to do that.”
In 2024, the Government intends to deepen and develop work on the sustainability of social security and, he reiterated, “what I can guarantee, strictly speaking, is that we are not going to adopt any policy that is to give something, of such a dimension, in a year of extraordinary inflation, which then must not be maintained”.
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Source: Observadora
