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Factsheet for measure PT-2020-11/397 – Updated – measures in Portugal
Country | Portugal , applies nationwide |
Time period | Temporary, 12 March 2020 – 31 December 2020 |
Context | COVID-19 |
Type | Legislations or other statutory regulations |
Category |
Income protection beyond short-time work
– Income support for unemployed |
Author | Heloisa Perista and Maria da Paz Campos Lima (CESIS) |
Measure added | 08 April 2020 (updated 05 August 2020) |
This exceptional and temporary measure provided for Decree Law No. 10-F/2020 of 26 March 2020 aims at protecting income and guaranteeing subsistence minima by extending unemployment benefits and by facilitating the maintenance of social benefits. The measure published on 26 March applies retroactively from 12 March. This measure seeks to address the economic impact of COVID-19 disease pandemic having into account increasing unemployment and protection of those that were already unemployed and were about to end their social benefits.
Decree Law No. 10-F/2020 of 26 March 2020 that ‘Establishes an exceptional and temporary regime for complying with tax obligations and for contributions in the context of the COVID-19 disease pandemic’ proclaims (in Article 1, paragraph e) and in Article 6) the extraordinary extension of unemployment benefits and of all benefits of the social security system that guarantee subsistence minima, and suspends the evaluation of conditions (means test) for maintaining social security system benefits.
The measure published on 26 March applies retroactively from 12 March. Article 6. Extraordinary extension of social benefits:
The following updates to this measure have been made after it came into effect.
13 July 2020 |
The Resolution of the Council of Ministers 41/2020, of 6 June, that approved the Economic and Social Stabilisation Programme adopts several measures to fight poverty. The abrupt fall in income in the last few months requires a change in the reference periods for granting of minimum social benefits, so that these may reflect the current situation of its beneficiaries. This implies:
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Information released by the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security (MTSS) - April 2010'COVID-19 | Informação relativa a famílias e empresas no âmbito do MTSSS'
Data on 6 April 2020• since the beginning of the month, +4,098 new unemployed people were enrolled per day (double identical period April / 2019), 122 daily job offers (21% of identical period April / 2019) and 114 daily job placements (26% from the same period April / 2019) in April, 12,114 new unemployment benefits claimed, 65% more than in the same period in 2019; since March 16 more 41 thousand unemployment benefits claimed compared to 16 thousand in the same period in 2019; 4,220 extensions of unemployment benefits
Workers | Businesses | Citizens |
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Unemployed
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Does not apply to businesses |
People on social benefits
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Actors | Funding |
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National government
Public employment service Social insurance |
National funds
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Social partners' role in designing the measure and form of involvement:
Trade unions | Employers' organisations | |
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Role | Informed | Informed |
Form | Not applicable | Not applicable |
Social partners' role in the implementation, monitoring and assessment phase:
Employer and trade union confederations were informed at the tripartite Standing Committee for Social Concertation.
Employer and trade union confederations were informed at the tripartite Standing Committee for Social Concertation.
Citation
Eurofound (2020), Extraordinary extension of unemployment benefit and social benefit, measure PT-2020-11/397 (measures in Portugal), EU PolicyWatch, Dublin, https://static.eurofound.europa.eu/covid19db/cases/PT-2020-11_397.html
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