More than 129,600 tenants will receive payment of extraordinary income for income, with retroactive to January, and 58,659 will have the payment suspended due to incongruities, the government told Lusa.
“According to the Institute of Housing and Urban Rehabilitation (), the data regarding the finding of 2025 indicates that in September supports will be paid to 129,642 renters, with retroactive to January,” said the Ministry of Infrastructure and Housing, in a written response to Lusa.
Already the number of incongruous tenants and whose payment will therefore be suspended ascends to 58,659, and in these situations the beneficiaries will be notified and should regularize their situation on the Citizen Consultation Portal available on the IHRU website.
On Tuesday, the Court of Justice announced that it had sent a letter to the Secretary of State for Housing to appeal to the urgent revision of extraordinary support for payment of income, after receiving a “significant volume of complaints” revealing serious irregularities.
Asked by Lusa, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Housing stressed that “the Extraordinary Support Program (PAER), created in 2023, by the previous government, was poorly designed, involving data from five different entities (IHRU, Tax Authority, Social Security, General Retirement Caixa and Foundation for Science and Technology), without being guaranteed its interoperability”.
As had previously been announced by the government, it is planned to review the program “Soon” to ensure its operationalization.
This year, the Court of Justice registered a significant increase in the number of complaints regarding suspension and reducing support and, between May 2023 and July 2025, received about a thousand requests related to this lace support regime.
The Provision concluded that the legal regime was conceived without attention to the fundamental rights and guarantees of the administrated and that there is insufficient ability to articulate and response from the Institute of Housing and Urban Rehabilitation (IHRU), the Tax and Customs Authority (AT) and the Institute of Social Security (ISS).
The entity also found that they have been disregarded “fully consecrated rights, such as the right of citizens to information, the notification of decisions, the grounds of administrative acts and the prior hearing of interested parties”, and that “citizens covered by this support – announced as automatic – have been repeatedly referred to service in service, without being able to obtain the information sought after”.
Additionally, he pointed out, computer platforms in use “are fragile and inadequate to the function, contributing to severe slowness and information difficulties.”
The complaints received this year by tenants also reveal the “extreme slowness” until the beginning of the support of the support and that, from the moment it begins to be paid, only a singular monthly amount is delivered, “unaware of when the retroactive due.”
“In various situations, citizens claim that their social and economic situation eventually got worse due to state failures, as well as expressing a deep disbelief about a legal solution designed to support them,” the provision pointed out.
Some of the “systemic failures” in this support had already been marked in the last two annual reports delivered to the Assembly of the Republic, the provision of justice recalled.
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