People in the lowest income group became even poorer

Cem YILDIRIM

While the top 20 percent of the population increased their share of total income by 1.3 percent compared to 2 years ago to 48 percent, the income share of the top 80 percent of 68 million people decreased by 0.1 percent in the same period.

NEEDY

In a statement to SÖZCÜ, senior adviser to the CHP president and Istanbul MP ​​Erdoğan Toprak said: “80 percent of people trying to survive on social assistance and below the poverty and hunger line are made up of by families that the government has. made in need of charity.” Saying that this TÜİK data negates the AKP government’s claim that workers, civil servants and retirees failed to suppress inflation, Toprak said: “The lowest increase in annual average income is 21.5 percent in the wage earners. The government destroys the social state and social justice, and multiplies many times the inequality in the distribution of income”.

Poverty line 33 thousand TL

Recalling that the hunger limit, which is the monthly food expenditure required for a family of 4 to be adequately fed, is 10,135 TL in April, Erdoğan Toprak said that in addition to food, basic necessities such as clothing , housing (rent, electricity, etc.). He pointed out that the poverty line, which expresses the expenses, is 33 thousand 14 TL. In April, the monthly cost of living for a single employee was measured at TL 13,167.