From the shopping basket to the IMV or pensions: rain of millions in an election year

The Government seeks today to close 2022 by extending its policy of checks, aid, benefit improvements and tax reductions with the focus on

per liter of aid in the purchase of fuel

Negotiations within the coalition government have focused on measures to alleviate the rise in the cost of food, which until last November was 16%.

Having ruled out a cap on the price of certain products as proposed by Vice President Yolanda Díaz, the discussion focused until late yesterday on the Podemos proposal on a check of 300 euros for up to eight million households and on the VAT reduction on certain products market.

In a single check like the one issued to the unemployed last summer, the aid of 300 euros would cost 2,400 million euros.

Today's council of ministers will be the last of the year and will determine it,

, which should already be ready according to the commitments with Brussels, or the Professional Minimum Wage (SMI).

Since the start of the energy and price crisis,

as the Government itself has admitted in its budget projections for 2023, the year in which the agenda marks up to three calls electoral.

To a large extent, the expense is offset by the increase in tax collection: tax

those registered in the same period of 2021 by 32,000 million.

Different voices from Podemos made their demands public yesterday in the face of the final announcement of the president,

.

Díaz, indicated that it is "essential" to offer measures such as prohibiting dismissal, guaranteeing the relief contract or "protecting against increases in the price of housing or food."

For her part,

, Minister of Social Rights, ruled that the best news "would be for the Government" to freeze rents and mortgages at a variable rate and stressed the need for the PSOE to understand the needs of Spanish families.

No one from the PSOE responded.

The fact is that the Government needs to relaunch the package of extraordinary measures approved since the beginning of the crisis, since

This is the case of the bonus of 20 cents per liter in fuel consumption, which will not be extended.

From next Monday, the trips will be noticeably more expensive.

According to the Spanish Confederation of Service Station Employers (CEES),

, while diesel costs 24% more than it was 12 months ago.

Along with the fuel bonus,

also expires , a measure that Podemos highlighted yesterday as a pending matter of agreement.

Another aid that has already expired - it was announced on June 25 and its term ended in September - is the 200-euro check for income of less than 14,000 euros.

In terms of employment

for companies that have resorted to public aid for situations arising from the war in Ukraine will expire on Monday.

And, if there is no news today, on Monday the

will also disappear , linked to the partial retirement that has been negotiating for months in the social dialogue.

and is one more announcement that Sánchez saves to be announced today.

The extension of other incentives such as discounts for public transport have already been announced while, on a consolidated basis, the largest item is the revaluation of pensions.

They will rise 8.5% in 2023, an average of 93 euros per pension and 107 euros in the case of retirees.

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