Day: October 24, 2016

  • The four main areas of poverty and how each budget has tackled them

    The four main areas of poverty and how each budget has tackled them

    Finance Minister Edward Scicluna meets with The Malta Independent on Sunday in order to fill us in on what the government’s term plan is and how this budget fits into the grander scheme of things. Professor Scicluna divulged the systematic approach taken by this government to tackle issues in various sections of society.   Some…

  • How Finance Minister Scicluna builds his Budget

    Faced with criticism that the middle class was forgotten in the Budget, Finance Minister Edward Scicluna says the exercise is part of a five-year plan and cannot be viewed in isolation. The Labour Party was under pressure by its traditional voters to deliver a more social Budget after three years of wealth generation that did not reach…

  • X’ser jieħdu l-pensjonanti is-sena d-dieħla

    X’ser jieħdu l-pensjonanti is-sena d-dieħla

    L-anzjani ser ikunu fost l-aktar faxxa ta’ membri tas-soċjetà tagħna li ser jibbenefikaw mill-baġit li ħabbart nhar it-Tnejn li għadda, grazzi għal pakkett ta’ 20 miżura intiża biex jiżdiedilhom id-dħul, fosthom permezz tal-qtugħ ta’ taxxa, kif ukoll għajnuna estiża għall-carer u għajnuna oħra. Dan kollu ser jidħol fis-seħħ fl-2017.   Nixtieq nispjega aktar fil-fond dan…