At the beginning of a year in which several social supports are updated, the Social Benefit for Inclusion, aimed at people with disabilities, will have an increase of 2.8% in the base component and an increase of 105 euros in the monthly value of the reference supplement, announced this Wednesday, January 21, the Secretary of State for Social Security, Filipa Lima, during a hearing in Parliament.
The information was presented to the parliamentary committee on Labour, Social Security and Inclusion, as part of the hearing of the team from the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security.
According to Filipa Lima, the base component of the Social Benefit for Inclusion will be updated in line with the Social Support Index, reflecting an increase of 2.8%.
Update of Social Benefits for Inclusion
According to Correio da Manhã, the Social Benefit for Inclusion is a benefit aimed at people with disabilities, with its own rules and different components, including the basic component.
The update now announced follows the evolution of the Social Support Index, an indicator used as a reference in various supports and benefits.
This measure was announced during the parliamentary hearing, when the ministerial team was being heard by deputies.
Supplement rises to 670 euros per month
In addition to the basic component, the minister highlighted the increase in the supplement to the Social Benefit for Inclusion, aimed at situations of poverty.
According to Filipa Lima, the supplement “increases to an annual reference value of 8,040 euros, which means that, in monthly terms, there is an increase of 105 euros, from 565 [euros] to 670 [euros]”.
The Secretary of State justified the update with the approval, last year, of legislation that equates this supplement to the value of the Solidarity Supplement for the Elderly, says the same source.
During the hearing, Filipa Lima indicated that the ordinance that implements the update is in the approval phase.
“As I said, this ordinance is in the approval phase, and will naturally be applied with retroactive effect to January,” stated the official.
Retroactivity means that the update must count from the beginning of the year, when the ordinance takes effect.
In the same session, questions arose from the Chega parliamentary group about the Social Insertion Income, namely about monitoring, detecting and combating fraudulent cases.
Based on data from November 2025, Filipa Lima indicated that there are around 165 thousand beneficiaries, which represents 6.6% of the total number of beneficiaries of social benefits that correspond to Social Security expenditure.
“In terms of value, given up to November 2025, we had 314 million euros, which corresponds to 2.3% of spending on social action”, he said, cited by .
Combating fraud and unique social benefit under study
The Secretary of State also mentioned that, both in number and value, “last year’s execution data shows a reduction compared to the 2024 execution due to the reduction in the number of beneficiaries”.
Regarding the efficiency and supervision of the RSI, Filipa Lima stated that a risk detection and fraud prevention model will be designed, applicable to the RSI and other social benefits, with the aim of detecting possible cases of abuse.
“We are also contemplating the inclusion of the RSI benefit in a more comprehensive measure, which is the single social benefit, (…) which will aggregate, as much as possible, a set of social benefits that we identified” as having a “set of redundancies and overlaps”, he also said.
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