60,000 euro ta’ 52 gurnata xoghol (jew ftit sieghat).

The irony of it all is that he probably needed to make no such pacts to get elected.The PN had by that time lost so much of its supporters that victory would have been his anyway by default…though not by such a large majority.

If she is living with another man, she had better be careful as she has already reached, if not exceeded, the number of children quota in China. but maybe the quota was revised upward just for her?

We all know she’s not living with her husband. We don’t know she is not living with a man.

How long does a single mother have to live with a man before her social benefits are taken away? A day? A week? A month? A year? What if a man stays for one night?

What if the man is living with the woman but not contributing anything to the wellbeing of the single mother and her child?

Does it make a difference if the man is a sibling and not a beau?

What if a male relative comes to visit from abroad for a few weeks and stays with her?

What if the man, like her child, is also her dependent?

I’m not denying that there are people who milk the social security system but crackdowns like this don’t make any sense and are open to all sorts of abuse, especially without clear guidelines and regulations.

The European Union gives people the right to free movement between member states. Is the government saying that a Frenchman can come to live in Malta wiithout any government interfering in his affairs but a Maltese man cannot go and live with a Maltese woman somewhere in Malta without the government interfering?.

The intended recipients of single-mother benefits are children, not their mothers. Benefits should not be based on whether there are men in the household but on whether the children have enough resources to be well looked after.