PSD offers €10,000 for every Portuguese child

With elections around the corner, the PSD Opposition has released a new manifesto:, “Politics for Infancy”. Designed to encourage families to reproduce, the major ‘carrot’ is a phased series of payments to every family amounting to €10,000 per child. Says party leader Rui Rio, the idea is to scrap the current child benefit system - which only benefits a few - and help everyone, irrespective of income.

Measures include free creche spaces for the ages six months to six years and increased paternity leave.

But there’s a ‘but’.

The plan has “not been calculated to the millimetre”, says Rio. Once the party gets to the point where it has to come up with a State Budget - assuming of course that it gets into power - “we would have to see where to cut in order to invest in these areas”, he concluded.

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+2 #4 Micl 2018-06-08 17:50

why was it that during the financial crisis the then government encurraged tge young to leave portugal so to get work and not be a burden on the Portuguese budget. Only now do they realise what a backword policy this was. Why not welcome the missing generation back with bribes. Will they come back?

+4 #3 AL 2018-06-07 12:53

What this article fails to explain is the reason for this new manifesto released by PSD. The reason is to encourage a rise in fertility rate in Portugal due to a population decrease.

Thanks Dierdre for your for your lecture in marital practices, but I don't think having children out of wedlock is the biggest problem in Portugal nor is a problem exclusive to Portuguese society.

-7 #2 Dierdre 2018-06-07 10:10

A far better step forward would be to educate Portuguese society to stop having children out of wedlock or stable partnerships. To stop Portuguese men folk having additional children with mistresses outside of formal co-habitation. The child carrying their fathers seed but not their name. Still highly prevalent, in addition to the distinctly unhealthy practice of child bearing with close family relatives.

0 #1 BobP 2018-06-07 09:06

'The plan has “not been calculated to the millimetre.”
What could possibly go wrong?

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