The government will move forward with a 5% increase in cost allowances in the Public Administration from November, but it has not been “sensitive” to wage increases to 2027 above expected, said the president of the STE today.
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12/11/2026
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Lusa
O Government will move forward with a 5% increase in cost allowances in the Public Administration from November, but it has not been “sensitive” to wage increases to 2027 above expected, said the president of the STE today.
According to Rosa Sousa, on leaving the meeting at the Ministry of Finance in Lisbon, the Government committed itself to paying a “five percent increase” in the cost allowances already “in November”.
“ We will start the review, but they are already paying at least 5%”, reinforced the president of the Union of State Technical Frameworks and Entities with Public Purposes (STE), stressing that this increase will be paid even before the start of negotiations on the revision of the allowances.
At the last meeting, the Government presented a re-alendarisation of several matters provided for in the Multiannual Agreement on the Valuation of Public Administration Workers (2026-2029), in particular on the review of the cost allowances, the process of which will start in January, when it was initially scheduled for the second quarter of 2026.
With regard to any wage increases above that provided for in the agreement, the President of the STE stated that the “Government was not sensitive” to that claim, as well as “it was not sensitive” to the claims concerning the meal allowance.
According to Rosa Sousa, the government said it was “compromised with the revision of general careers”, as well as other careers, and argued that this review “has a budgetary impact”, so it considers “it is difficult to make an increase because there is already a commitment to this review”.
“ We also understand and say that it is true, that those who have had their career reviewed also have a salary supplement. But those who don't have their careers reviewed, don't. They only have this increase, which is in the agreement”, he adds.
The STE, committed to the UGT, claimed an update of remuneration above 5%, in addition to the EUR 2.3% or 60.52 provided for in the multiannual agreement, as well as an anticipation of the increase in the food allowance planned for 2028, so that it rises to EUR 6,45 already next year.
Rosa Sousa also said that there will be an additional meeting to finish the ongoing negotiating process on 19 November.
In addition to increases of 2.30%, with a minimum of EUR 60.52 in 2027, the multiannual agreement provides that the remuneration base for public administration will rise from the current EUR 934.99 to EUR 995.51 in 2027.
The agreement in force dictates that the meal allowance, currently EUR 6,15, is increased by 15 cents per year by 2029.