The measures announced Tuesday (22.4.2025) by the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis as a result of over -performance of the economy, the Minister of Labor and Social Security reported Ceramic Victoryin an interview given Wednesday (23.4.2025) to ERT.
Specifically, Niki Kerameos highlighted the new fixed support for 250 euros in about 62% of the country’s pensioners over 65, noting that “€ 250 net that will be paid by the end of November each year and concerns specific retirees over € 65 and up to € 26,000 and up to € 14,000 and up to € 14. cohabitation and some additional income criteria. “
In the opposition criticism of the new measures, the minister replied that “we are not saying that all the problems of the world are solved, but we say it is an important aid to limit some difficulties in key areas, such as the issue of rent that plagues too many families, such as the support of our fellow citizens.
I heard the opposition say that this is the result of additional taxation. What additional taxation? This government is which has abolished or reduce over 70 taxesSo where do these revenue come from? By growth, by the fact that we have the lower unemployment of 17 years».
At the same time, the minister underlined the Ministry of Labor’s contribution to the over -performance of the economy.
‘Don’t forget that we have 500,000 new jobs were created in the last five years. It results from wage increases. We are constantly seeing wage increases. When salary increases it means we have More revenue for public funds and insurance funds. Arises from more full -time contracts.
At the moment we speak we have more than 3 in 4 employees who are paid full time and not partial. They come from the expansion of the digital work card, which now records the real time of work, protects the employee because we now know how much time he is working and we care to get paid for that time, but that again means more revenue. “
And he added: “So only from the Ministry of Labor we have hundreds of millions of euros that have emerged as over -performance thanks to these measures, thanks to the country’s economic growth, thanks to most of the jobs created and our debt is to return to society.”
Referring to work findings Career daysthe minister said that over 9000 fellow citizens have found work through them and added that “at the same time we are expanding this effort abroad. In November we were in the Netherlands, in December we were in Düsseldorf, Germany, last month we were in England. In May we will go back to Germany, in Stuttgart this time. “
Ms. Kerameos then pointed out the ministry’s new arrangement on the insurance contributions and unpaid contributions to EFKA reaching 50 billion euros. The minister stressed that “one has two roads.
The first way is to say, as many governments have done, including the SYRIZA government, which has done nothing on this issue, we have very high debts, we cannot do anything, let alone the next. The other way is to say we should do something about it, why? We need to do something about it, in order to be able to create a fiscal space, to enhance the justice of the insurance system, to enhance the viability of the insurance system and to give back to society. I am caught by something you said from SYRIZA’s announcement that these companies will be forced to execute. Untrue.
That they will make themselves in recovery, untrue. The provision itself says that the collection remains exclusively in KEAO. KEAO is the center of collection of insurance debts. There will be an international competition to provide companies to offer their services in support of a milder approach. So there will be a communication, in which in a milder approach he will talk to the insured, he will try to understand why he has not paid and give him a flexibility, give him more tools. He will be able to give him more flexible arrangements again to a personalized approach. “
Concerning the new labor bill currently being processed by the Ministry of Labor, Mrs Kerameos noted that “our goal is to constantly eliminate bureaucracy. To simplify the procedures for everyone. And when I say for everyone I mean workers, I mean business. So in our plans it is a new labor bill that will try to simplify labor market procedures. To tell you with an example, do not need so many documents for an intake. “