Regarding the additional measures from the autumn and the possibility of Fuel Pass 3, Mr. Staikouras underlined that after September it is estimated that there will be additional fiscal space, while the July revenue figures are very good.
For the payments of subsidies talk to SKY the Minister of Finance Christos Staikouras.
For Power Pass the minister said that 250 million of the 300 million euros total have been paid.
“There were a few backlogs for checks carried out by the competent agencies and related to the previous semester and we also added June to cover beneficiaries whose settlement statements came out in June,” he explained about the pending payments.
The whole process is estimated to be completed by the end of this month and the payments of the remaining 50 million euros will be made immediately after, in early September.
For Fuel Pass 2, Mr. Staikouras said that the process was completed yesterday and 2.2 million citizens have been credited with the amounts to their accounts. As he said, the applications that will be made in August or will be paid in August are pending.
He noted, in fact, that 73% of citizens chose to credit the amount to bankso they preferred to take less money but be able to use it in other sources as well.
“These measures are 500 million euros”, the minister emphasized.
Regarding the additional measures from the autumn and the possibility of Fuel Pass 3, Mr. Staikouras underlined that after September it is estimated that there will be additional fiscal space, while the July revenue figures are very good.
“Then based on the needs of the last quarter additional interventions will be discussed,” he said and added: “We have everything on a list, what of them will be implemented will depend on the image of the economy in September.”
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