If they were helping, at least it would have calm the inflation rate a little but it's not, to help doesn't means that when they just say something or put up a new law and in few days they announce that inflation has reduced by x percent but on the next announcement they'll make after then, you will discover that the rate has gone higher than before, that's not help. To help the situation, people should not only rely on one source of income because it probably might not be enough to support all your financial wants and desires.