The budget execution summary, released today by the Directorate-General for Budget, indicates that actual expenditure amounted to 14.689 billion euros, compared to 13.6454 billion euros in the same period last year.
Meanwhile, actual revenue totaled 17.6031 billion euros, up from 16.192 billion euros in the previous year.
In the period under review, notable categories included the solidarity supplement for the elderly (47.2%), pensions for former combatants (37.5%), and the informal caregiver support subsidy (35.6%).
Conversely, figures such as the exceptional pension supplement (-100%), the supplement to extraordinary support for children and youth (-93.5%), and exceptional and temporary measures due to COVID-19 (-76.9%) showed declines.
