The Government breathed a sigh of relief on February 4 when the number of unemployed fell just short of four million workers and was able to make a positive reading of the evolution of the crisis. It was a reading that practically no one shared and that I could hardly keep up with now. Between […]
Tag: Jose Luis Escrivá
New maternity supplement for pensioners: who can collect it and how to request it?
The Council of Ministers has approved a new maternity and paternity supplement for pensioners. This is a reform of the previous complement, which could only be requested by women, and which can now be requested from the first child. The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Josà © Luis Escrivá, has explained in the […]
A doped job market
The Minister of Social Security, Josà © Luis Escrivá, said a few days ago in an interview with the newspaper ‘Financial Times’ that the unemployment forecasts of the OECD and the Bank of Spain that placed unemployment in Spain by over 20% at the end of 2020 “had completely failed”. And technically he is right, […]
Díaz pressures businessmen to agree to the extension of the ERTE in one week
The Ministry of Labor wants to assert the word of Yolanda DÃaz and pressures the businessmen to agree to the extension of the ERTE within a week, so that the new scheme is approved in the next Council of Ministers. The technical meeting called this afternoon has concluded with some fringes to close, in the […]
Escrivá discards the four-day work week for Iglesias and Errejón: “It is for countries with full employment”
The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Josw Luis Escriva, has completely ruled out the debate that has been put on the table by both the second vice president, Pablo Iglesias, as the deputy of More Country, Errejon. “That is a very interesting debate that occurs in countries with full employment” Escriva told Errejon […]
The Bank of Spain warns that the boost from European funds will remain at half of what the Government promised
The Government, through President Pedro Sánchez himself, affirmed that the boost from European funds would be so intense already in 2021 that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Spain would register a very notable additional boost of up to 2 , 6 points. The data generated certain doubts among not a few analysts at the […]
The Government raises the quota for the self-employed to 24 euros amid a plummet in economic activity
The Government has applied in full pandemic and recession the rise to the Social Security self-employed contributions that was agreed for the period from 2019 to 2021. This will affect how self-employed they will pay between 6 and 24 euros more than in September. The figure is temporary, since the quota will grow again in […]
Escrivá ignores the Brussels warnings and criticizes the Bank of Spain for not “learning” from past mistakes
Jose Luis Escriva came to the Government as one of the figures with the greatest respect and credibility in the economic sphere of Spain. His appearances in Congress as president of the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF) were highly anticipated and valued by all forces. And his warnings were always taken into account […]
The ‘total amendment’ of the Bank of Spain to the Budgets: it does not see credible income, expenses or forecasts
The Governor of the Bank of Spain, Pablo Hernandez de Cos, makes an amendment to the entire State Budget project with technical arguments. The senior official who is in charge of the considered best studies service in the country shares that public investment must be increased in the face of the pandemic, but neither the […]
The Ministry only resolves one of every three requests for Minimum Vital Income and denies 60%
The Congress of Deputies approved the Minimum Vital Income (IMV) last June to guarantee a minimum monthly income to all citizens, until reaching a threshold of 462 euros, at an especially difficult time for many households due to the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The benefit could be requested from June 15 and the […]