meters who announced premier on saturday night from tif stage Minister of Finance Christos Staikouras, Deputy Minister of Finance Thodoros Skilakakis and Deputy Minister of Finance Apostolos Vesiropulos specify.

The finance minister announced that growth estimates for 2022 are being revised to 5.3% for this year and 2.1% for 2023, adding that “based on today’s data, the country’s GDP will exceed 200 billion euros this year and is expected to approaching 205 million euros.” Euro”. According to him, “growth is based on an impressive increase in investment and exports.”

“Unemployment is declining and is at its lowest level in 12 years. The authority of the country is strengthened by increased supervision. Over the past three years, it has been upgraded 11 times and is close to reaching investment grade,” he added.

As he pointed out, the cost of the intervention is 13.2 billion euros in 2022, of which 10 billion euros is the cost of subsidizing electricity and natural gas for households and businesses. 80% of all interventions are directed towards bold subsidies: 4.1 billion euros for households and the rest for businesses.

Interventions, he says, are based on six pillars:

One-time assistance of 250 euros for vulnerable households

The beneficiaries are 1 million pensioners compared to 634 thousand in April with a monthly income of 800 euros compared to 600 euros in April. Also, 35,000 uninsured OPECA seniors, 172,000 disability benefit recipients, 225,000 minimum guaranteed income recipients will receive a double payment in December. 800,000 recipients of OPEKA child benefits will receive an additional payment of 1.5 times

The total cost will be 496 million euros.

An increase of 200,000 beneficiaries of the Recycling-Replacement Program worth €140 million.

Subsidizing 250,000 farmers due to an increase in the cost of fertilizers worth 60 million euros, subsidizing 50,000 livestock breeders due to an increase in the cost of animal feed in the amount of 89 million euros.

Increasing heating bills

Income criteria are defined in:

• From 14,000 euros, 16,000 euros per person
• and from 20,000 to 24,000 euros for married people plus 3,000 for each child

Benefit awill increase from 300 euros to 350 euros, and those who consume oil or liquefied gas this year will receive a double surcharge for heating. The cost is 300 million euros.

The decrease in the cost of fuel oil affects 1.3 million households by about 25 cents.

Extension of preferential VAT on coffee, drinks and cinema until June 2023, value up to 246 million euros. Installation of photovoltaic panels

Work

$1.7 billion in action to create quality jobs and increase workers’ incomes.

• A new, third increase in the minimum wage, effective from May 2023. The payroll of 1 million workers will be affected.
• Second, to permanently reduce insurance premiums by 3 percentage points, which increases the income of 2.2 million workers. cost 871 million euros.
• Thirdly, the permanent abolition of the collection of solidarity in the private sector.

This measure increases the disposable income of 1.2 million workers. The cost is 765 million euros.

• Fourth, exemption from the sham fee for sham and small businesses with a gross income of up to 2 million euros per year.
• Fifth, incentives to convert part-time contracts to full-time contracts for businesses with a high percentage of part-time workers. From the day before yesterday until the end of 2023, those companies in which the percentage of part-time employees exceeds 50% under employment contracts concluded before September 10 and transferred from part-time to full-time, are exempt from paying 40% of insurance premiums for one year for the assigned employee. This applies to approximately 290,000 businesses employing 2.2 million people.

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