Cabinet: support for purchasing power of low incomes this year

Room: stop lingering!

Meanwhile, the House of Representatives is urging rapid measures to absorb the purchasing power boom, especially among the lowest incomes.

“I don’t expect miracles from the cabinet, but deeds,” says MP Pieter Grinwis of the governing party ChristenUnie. He wants poor families to be helped to pay their energy bills and to consider temporarily lowering the excise tax on fuel.

The VVD also believes that the cabinet should quickly come up with measures to absorb the worst blows. The higher petrol and energy prices affect everyone, says the VVD, but especially the low and middle incomes must be supported quickly.

D66 MP Steven van Weyenberg points emphatically to the role of Russia. “War in Europe is not without damage to the economy and to people’s wallets.” In addition to support for low incomes, D66 argues for more speed in saving energy and becoming less dependent on Russian gas.

sledgehammer

“A sledgehammer for families in the Netherlands,” GroenLinks leader Jesse Klaver tweeted. He again calls for a freeze on energy prices in order to accommodate citizens. “The cabinet must stop lingering,” says PvdA member Henk Nijboer. In his view, an emergency package must be “to prevent people from getting even deeper into financial misery”.

CDA MP Inge van Dijk calls the purchasing power figures of the CPB “gloomy and worrying”. According to her, the blow hits the low and middle incomes the hardest, “the backbone of our society”. “We must lend a helping hand to people who are at risk of falling through the ice.”

“Refuelling, rent, shopping, it is almost impossible to pay,” said SP leader Lilian Marijnissen. “The cabinet must intervene and not pretend that it hits everyone equally hard.”

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