The Budgets improve the unemployment benefit and will give 100 euros per child
The public accounts will include a rise with the inflation of pensions and the Minimum Vital Income from January 1
The Council of Ministers approves this Tuesday the General State Budgets,
an agreement reached at dawn between PSOE and United We Can and that will incorporate the largest social spending in history. The objective, according to the Executive, is that pensioners do not lose purchasing power, improve the conditions of the working class and reinforce investment in health, education and dependency.
These are the most important measures known so far:
Unemployment
The accounts introduce an improvement in the unemployment benefit, which will once again be 60% on the salary regulatory base from the seventh month. This measure will benefit 300,000 people. In 2012, during the Rajoy government, it was lowered to 50%.
pensions
The new public accounts include the increase in all pensions, whether contributory or non-contributory, with the aim that "the elderly maintain their purchasing power" in the face of rising inflation, Second Vice President Yolanda Díaz detailed on her Twitter account.
families
The Budgets will include a parenting benefit of 100 euros per month for families with children from 0 to 3 years old. It is a payment that until now working mothers received and that is now extended to all families.
Single-parent families with 2 children will also be assimilated to the category of large families.
In addition, the Government undertakes to process a Family Law that will include new conciliation permits. Díaz outlined that there will be permits for caregivers, permits to deal with unforeseen family circumstances or a new 8-week parental leave, but what these measures will consist of has not yet been specified.
Dependence
A Dependency Shock Plan will be reinforced with 600 million euros with the aim of reducing waiting lists, with new benefits and improving the working conditions of those who care, said Díaz.
Minimum Living Income
Likewise, Vice President Díaz announced that the Minimum Vital Income (IMV) will include a rise with inflation as well as pensions. The IPREM will be 600 euros per month from January 1, 2023.
Taxes
The tax package was presented last Thursday. It includes a rise in taxes on high incomes, a new tax on large fortunes, a reduction in bonuses in the Corporation Tax and a reduction in personal income tax on income below 21,000 euros per year.
Macroeconomic forecasts
The economic vice president Nadia Calviño announced this Monday that the Government will raise its growth forecast for this year by one tenth, to 4.4%. Nevertheless,
it will drop by six tenths that of 2023 up to 2.1%.