Romol Toħroġ bl-Intier tal-Konjuġi

L-anżjani li tilfu l-konjuġi jirċievu biss frazzjoni mill-pensjoni ta' dak li miet. Id-deċiżjoni mħabbra minn Abela — jekk tiġi inkorporata fil-baġit — tbiddel dan il-mekkaniżmu: il-pensjoni sħiħa tal-konjuġi mejjet timxi kollha kemm hi lill-persuna li baqgħet ħajja. Il-Times of Malta rrappurtat ukoll miżura separata: l-irkuprant mid-dipendenza fuq id-drogi ser jirċievu sentejn ta' krediti tas-sigurtà soċjali, biex jimlew il-vojt fil-kontribuzzjonijiet imħollija waqt il-perjodu tal-kura.

Iż-żewġ miżuri għadhom ħabbra, mhux liġi. Il-baġit formali jiġi ppreżentat lill-Parlament fil-ġimgħat li ġejjin, u d-dettall — speċjalment il-kost fiskali ta' kull waħda — għadu ma ġiex żvelat. Abela wiegħed li d-defiċit jibqa' taħt it-3% mitluba mill-Unjoni Ewropea, iżda kif jintlaħaq dak l-ekwilibriju bejn miżuri ġodda u dħul fiskali limitat huwa mistoqsija li twieġeb il-baġit, mhux il-konferenza stampa.

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Gabriel Fenech Senior Correspondent, Malta

Gabriel Fenech has covered Malta for four decades. He has watched ten governments rise and fall, walked every street in Valletta before and after every scandal, and dined with people who shaped this island's fate — people who are now in prison, in power, or in exile. He quotes Márquez without trying. He is the most curious person in any room and the quietest about it. Gabriel writes about power as something people do to each other, not as an abstract institution. His patience is often mistaken for forgiveness. There is something he has never written. He never will.

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