The Government today extended the aid of 426 euros for the unemployed without benefits
| Date: August 16, 2010 | Source: Europa Press |
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Loading ... The Executive extended from today for the second time, the aid of 426 euros to those unemployed who have exhausted their unemployment benefits for another six months, although not until the extraordinary Council of Ministers on 20 August when approve this decision.
The program known as Temporary Unemployment Protection and Integration (Prodi), which targets unemployed with no income who have not already received this aid was approved in August, but does not begin to count up to November, with the first aids.
The Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, estimated that the first two phases of this non-contributory have already benefited 570,000 people until the end of July, and justified the new extension in the coverage rate of 80% to over 4 , 6 million unemployed.
The government approved last August this temporary aid for six months as short-term measures to minimize the impact of the crisis, and that three months later applied retroactively from August 1 at the request of the parliamentary groups.
The new extension of 426 euros not come without controversy. During the month of May various members of the Government raised the cyclical review of this aid, as the Secretary General for Employment, Maravillas Rojo, who left open the door to study "whether or not the extension of the Prodi".
These words were tinged days later by the Minister of Labour and Immigration, Celestino Corbacho, the rush to ensure that the Executive had not on the agenda withdraw 426 euros, so that ruled out "creating a crisis" this measure.
426 EURO IN 2010
The amount of Prodi is 80% of the Public Indicator of Multiple Effect Income (IPREM), which in 2009 was 420 euros, and this year is the current 426 euros.
The extension of the Prodi is intended for the unemployed under 65 years exterminated contributory benefits and unemployment benefits from 16 February to 15 August 2010 inclusive, and not have received during its first phase.
Also, the aid is limited to income over 75% of minimum wage - which stood at 474.98 euros per month in 2010 - and gain the commitment of participating in an active itinerary of labor insertion.
