San Marino. Pensions reform and single-parent households: the proposals of Domani-Motus Liberi
“The week just ended saw the policy involved in the work of Commission IV, which examined the draft laws relating to the reform of the social security system and forms of support for single pregnant women and single-parent households”.
Thus begins a reflection of Motus Liberi tomorrow.
The Party, reads a note, “consistently with the positions it has always held, has presented various proposals to modify the texts deposited at first reading in order to try to make the measures more balanced and balanced, while keeping in mind that the only one to favor recovery and growth is investing in economic development and encouraging consumption, not providing for new taxes or paying less and less to those who are already in difficulty. Economic development that can restart immediately by implementing concrete proposals already on the table for some time, which imply the allocation of resources to investments in innovative sectors, in the digitization of the country, thus favoring the opening of our economy to new important markets.
Returning to the two bills, we would like to give explanations of some of the proposals we have presented: for families composed of a single parent with reduced income and one or more children, we have proposed and obtained the inclusion of an article that provides for the exemption from the payment of the contribution for school meals for children up to six years, then also with the implementation of the payment of the fee for kindergartens up to three years. We have also proposed and obtained the inclusion of a plan aimed at guaranteeing adequate support from the social services for parents-students to request access to studies with favorable conditions. A provision that is certainly useful in general, a piece that implements interventions in favor of families in difficulty.
With regard to the pension reform, however, we expressed our opposition to the article that provides for a limit of 2.2% to the annual revaluation of ordinary pensions and among our proposals we want to point out to restore the provision that provides for the reduction of the minimum income for the first five years of activity for self-employed workers, to allow voluntary payments of contributions for part-time workers (generally a measure that affects young mothers) up to four years after the right to accrue, as well as to temporarily limit the measure of the withholding of solidarity, a measure that we consider necessary but which needs to be well defined. We then expressed a clear opposition to the articles that insert serious measures for companies between professionals, a political choice that we consider discriminatory compared to what is provided for other types of economic activities, and to the article that provides for non-recognition by way of reimbursement. SMaC to consumers of petroleum products of 0.05 Euro cents per liter – a measure that we consider profoundly increased, given the increase in energy costs already borne by households -, as well as for the increase in the selling price of tobaccos for by 0.10 euro cents per package – which risks reducing purchases, also by many consumers from outside the territory, consequently decreasing the revenues for the state -.
We are convinced that increasing costs, reducing reimbursements or limiting the economic evaluation in a moment of strong esteem, although it may lead to aspirations in the immediate future, in the long term will have a significant impact on the spending capacity of families, already in difficulty, limiting the virtuous mechanism of the circular economy in the long term (more purchases lead to more growth, which brings more jobs, resulting in revenue for the state). We will therefore insist, in this sense, with our proposals also in the second reading of the laws and future measures, to bring them back to greater equity in order to encourage the economic development of our country and take it out of the recession: here because it is urgent to accompany this type of intervention with measures that favor the growth of our system and guarantee adequate, concrete and immediate support for families and businesses in this difficult period “.