The Portuguese condemned the retirement trick

As for measures to support the population and companies, 88.3% of respondents consider them insufficient and that the Government should do more. Thus, the vast majority of the Portuguese are unhappy with the aid package presented by António Costa’s government.

But widespread dissatisfaction also relates to the time it took for the government to present the package. 74.6% believe they should have submitted it sooner.

However, relatively few have changed their minds about the government as a result of these measures. Only 21.8%, and of these 73.5% say they now have the worst opinion of the government.

Government reveals accounts after pressure from Marcelo
The government sent bills to raise pensions in 2023, which the opposition considers an accounting ploy, two days after the president of the republic demanded their disclosure. In response to Marcelo Rebelo de Souza’s position that he considers the disclosure of these accounts “inevitable”, the office of Social Security Minister Ana Mendez Godinho sent the above reports to Parliament.

The pension bills were sent to Parliament on Sunday. When this was heard in Parliament last Wednesday, two days before CM To reveal the position of the President of the Republic, Ana Méndez Godinho expressed no interest in handing these bills over to the opposition parties. This is despite the fact that the parties requested reports that led the executive to conclude that a full 8 percent increase in pensions in 2023, under the legal formula, would jeopardize the future sustainability of the pension system.

A full pension increase in 2023 will pre-empt a financial hole in the Social Security pension system by 10 years, according to executive branch reports. “The first negative balances in the pension system will be carried over to the end of the 2020s and may reach negative values ​​of up to 1% of GDP in the late 2030s, and it is assumed that the Fund [de Estabilização Financeira da Segurança Social] will end in the early first half of the 2040s.”

Negative balance to exceed one billion in 2030
Pension reports the government has sent to Parliament show that Social Security will run into a deficit of more than one billion euros in 2030 if pensioners receive the full 8% increase in pensions next year. No

Stop calling the minister to the Assembly
Chega will urgently summon the Minister of Social Security to the Assembly of the Republic (AR). After analyzing the reports sent by the government to the AR, Andre Ventura believes that “what is presented to the parties is a lie.”

Executive’s proposal sparks strong controversy
The government proposes to pay pensioners half of the pension in October this year, and in 2023 to give an increase to pensions below 8%, arising from the legislative formula.

Half of positive evolution is at stake
The government says a full pension increase in 2023 will jeopardize half of the positive evolution of social security sustainability from 2015 to 2022.

DATA SHEET

Purpose: A survey conducted by Intercampus for CM and CMTV to find out the opinion of the Portuguese on various topics of the national current universe of the Portuguese population aged 18 and over, registered for elections, living in the Portuguese mainland. Sample: Consists of 606 interviews with the following distribution: 290 men and 316 women; 128 people aged 18 to 34, 208 people aged 35 to 54, and 270 people aged 55 and over; 231 in the north, 140 in the center, 166 in Lisbon, 42 in the Alentejo and 27 in the Algarve. Sampling: Household selection was made by randomly generating landline/mobile phone numbers. At home, the selection of the respondent was carried out by the method of sex and age quota (3 groups). The quota matrix by region (NUTS II), sex and age was prepared on the basis of data from the Electoral Census of Portugal (12/31/2020) of the General Directorate of Internal Administration (DGAI) Information collection: Through telephone interview, in complete confidentiality, through the CATI system. Fieldwork was conducted between September 9 and 15, 2022. Margin of error: The maximum sampling error for a 95% confidence interval is about 4.0%. Response rate 62.1%.