Greece to make cost-of-living payments to families, seniors

Greece’s blimpish authorities connected Wednesday announced special payments to seniors and families with children, and the hold of a substance subsidy for farmers, to assistance antagonistic a cost-of-living crisis.

The assistance worth hundreds of millions of dollars came arsenic the country’s parliament voted connected whether to assistance the immunity from prosecution for 13 lawmakers accused of engagement successful a European Union subsidy fraud scandal.

Higher vigor prices from the war successful the Middle East sent Greece’s yearly ostentation to 3.9 percent successful March.

“The hard planetary situation is adding to the already dense load of the outgo of surviving for our households,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said successful announcing the measures.

He said that an “exceptional” outgo of 150 euros ($176) per kid would beryllium made to each household successful June and that astir 1 cardinal families would benefit.

Mitsotakis added that an yearly outgo to retirees connected small pensions and the disabled would beryllium accrued to 300 euros.

A 20 cent per litre subsidy connected diesel substance for farmers, announced successful March, has been extended on with a fertiliser subsidy amounting to 15 percent of the terms paid, Mitsotakis said.

Source: AFP