Prime Minister Antonio Costa announced this Thursday emergency support for rents up to 200 euros a month. The Council of Ministers also approved subsidizing the interest rate on loans concluded before March 15.
According to António Costa, “all families with incomes up to and including the sixth level of the IRS and who currently have an effort level with housing costs greater than 35%” are eligible for support.
Support, up to a maximum of 200 euros per month, will be paid retroactively from January of this year. The measure will be in effect for five years, a period of time during which the government estimates the housing market will stabilize.
António Costa also stressed that the support varies “depending on the income of the family, as well as the amount of income.”
Measure passed to force banks to have a fixed rate on home loans
The Prime Minister stated this at a press conference after a meeting at which some measures of the housing package were approved.
According to António Costa, it was determined, as planned, “that all banks offering mortgages must also have a commercial offer at a fixed rate, so that those who wish to take out a loan can do so at a fixed rate or those who have the rendered variable rate may be changed to a fixed rate.”
This measure has already been announced by the government on February 16 in the Council of Ministers dedicated to housing construction.
Public comment by Sea of Housing, which provides for the creation of support for tenants and people with home loans, ended on the 13th.
On March 24, the public discussion of the rest of the program (which includes the measures that the Government will have to send to Parliament), which will go to the Council of Ministers on the 30th of this month, and then go to Parliament, ends. .
We are talking, among other things, about diplomas associated with local housing, “golden” visas or forced renting of empty houses.
The global package of measures was approved by the Council of Ministers on 16 February and submitted for public comment on 20 February.
According to the government, the Mais Habitação program measures will cost about 900 million euros, which will be mobilized from the state budget.
The government will present new measures to support the economy next Friday
Next week, the Council of Ministers will adopt measures to support the family and the economy, which will be presented on Friday and “calibrated against the final execution data of the 2022 budget.”
“As for other non-housing support, next week the Council of Ministers will adopt measures that will be presented on Friday and will be calibrated according to the final performance data for the 2022 budget,” António Costa said in Lisbon.
The Prime Minister stressed that the “final version” of these measures “depends” on the data on the execution of the 2022 budget, which will be known next week.
“Next week, when we already know the final figures for the execution of last year’s budget, we will have an idea of u200bu200bwhat is the reserve, as we always said, of the ability to support families and the economy to a greater extent, depending on the needs and the development of the situation,” he declared.
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