Finance Minister Shapoka said he presented his latest budget: I would go as a technocrat

The state budget for 2021 is socially oriented, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said. “We are meeting our responsibilities,” he said. For his part, Finance Minister Vilius Šapoka declared that he had presented his latest budget. “I’m going out as a technocrat,” he said.

“I can repeat what I said 4 years ago: the budget has a social orientation, no matter the situation the country has faced, despite the pandemic, positive decisions have been made to ensure the income of the people,” he said Wednesday after the government meeting. Skvernel explained that benefits for children, pensions and other amounts will increase next year as the government has to meet its commitments. The prime minister said that so far the idea of ​​the so-called thirteenth pension has not been abandoned. “The will to make this decision is in the Seimas. When will the law be approved in the Seimas, which stipulates that the pension number 13 will be paid in December 2021, and that law will be approved in the Seimas, then the Government will provide sources of funding to implement this law, “Skvernelis said. .