“Today we are taking a most important, meaningful and historic step by proposing a constitutional guarantee of the minimum guaranteed income,” Labour and Social Protection Minister Yiannis Vroutsis noted on Tuesday, during the debate on revising the constitution in parliament.
He said the proposal was a “flagship” measure for social protection and social rights that aimed to boost and support the poorest members of society, who were hard hit by the economic crisis.
The minister added that 236,000 of the recipient households had an annual income that was less than 5,000 euros and 130,000 had no income at all. An estimated 670 million euros will be disbursed this year, with the average being 213 euros per household.
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