Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Supporting thegovernment’s new rescue package, Malta businesses have agreed to pay a minimum of €400 per month payment for each employee, guaranteeing Malta’s workforce a wage of €1,200 during the crisis.
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Malta has the second-lowest expenditure on social protection among European member states, a Eurostat survey on EU government spending has found. Social protection spending covers government expenditure on sickness and disability, old age, survivors,...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
BLOG: For decades, political and economic policies have been built on the promise of helping people do better than the generations before them. But still today, in 2020, the opportunities we get in life remain largely dictated by the socio-economic...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019
(OPINION): From the “welfare-reform” efforts of the 1990s to the strictly income-dependent benefits of the Affordable Care Act, means-testing has dominated the past several decades of center-left policy discussion in the United States. According to this...
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Thursday, August 22, 2019
Australian academics are looking to Iceland when it comes to ways to increase the proportion of fathers who take paternity leave. The extra three months of paid leave, introduced 19 years ago, is non-transferable to the mother, meaning a family gets...
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Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Over three-quarters of the €1.7 billion budget for social protection in 2016 was spent on old age and health benefits, according to a comprehensive publication released on Wednesday by the National Statistics Office.
The budget increase by €70.3...
Monday, October 22, 2018
Means testing is to be scrapped when calculating rent subsidies first introduced last year, with the government seeking ways to help lower-middle-income earners struggling in a booming rental market. Central to the new measures is a mandatory...
Monday, July 30, 2018
A €17.2 million increase was recorded in the social security benefits outlay between January and June compared to the same six-month period in 2017, according to the National Statistics Office.
The NSO said social security benefits expenditure reached...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Social assistance benefits are received by over 3,000 people who are separated whilst 223 of those separated receive unemployment assistance. On the other hand, approximately 2,500 single mothers are provided with social welfare.
This information was...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
In 2016, social protection remained the core expenditure sector representing 31.6 per cent of total general government expenditure, followed by general public services, health and education, the NSO said today. Total general government expenditure...