TC Chumba cut in sickness and unemployment retroactively.

More than 347 000 unemployed will no longer have a 6% cut in their unemployment benefits and summer also reset the amount withheld for Social Security since the beginning of the year. This is because the Constitutional Court chumbou the contribution of 6% that began to be implemented in January.

As this involved only cutting subsidies nature of welfare, the social unemployment, aimed at low-income households, was not affected.

According to the statistics of Social Security in January, nearly 346,000 unemployed were the main unemployment benefit, that number rose to 347,781 in February. March data are not yet available.

Also since January, sickness benefits were subject to a rate of 5%, which will now be returned to the beneficiaries. This leaves out low cutting under 30 days. [link to economico.sapo.pt]