Dispute about the minimum income

"More accurate" or "unfair"?
28.11.18 23:38

The government presented Wednesday the new minimum income.

Vienna. On Wednesday, Sebastian Kurz and HC Strache decided to defend their new welfare program after the Cabinet meeting (see below the basic template). The Chancellor pointed out that half of the recipients were foreigners. He also defended mbadive cuts in multi-family families.

As AUSTRIA says, a family of four will receive only 1,640 euros instead of 2,227 euros a month. In short: "If you include the family allowance, you have until now paid 3,000 euros, which often has people going to work." and becomes more just. "

While the countries governed by the ÖVP see the agreement as positive, the SPÖ countries, Vienna, Carinthia and Burgenland, repeat the uprising. According to rumors, the mayor of Vienna, Michael Ludwig, would not have spoken to the countries yet. And Peter Kaiser of Carinthia is furious in AUSTRIA: "This model is a madness."

• Children. Reason of anger; will be reduced in multi-child families, but even couples with two children will receive less in the future, predicts the AK: Up to now, it was 1,605.26 euros, at the Future, it is 125 euros less. In the future, the third child will receive 43.15 euros / month. A number, however, later corrected by the government. Tyrol Provincial Councilor Gabriele Fischer (Greens): "It's not enough for the diapers."
• Refugees. In the future, if they do not speak German well, you will receive 300 euros less.
• Dispute on emergency badistance.But the real point of disagreement dates back to 2019: emergency badistance should be reformed – and Kurz did not rule out the fact that the youngest with few insurance periods can fall into the minimum income. Strache promised: "All those who have taken out this insurance will not be covered by the minimum income".

Kaiser: "It's crazy"

AUSTRIA: What do you say about the new minimum income protection?

Peter Kaiser: A madness.

AUSTRIA: Why?

Kaiser: I can not understand what it is planned to cut with the kids. Foreigners or not, they are only people. One-third of the 307,000 minimum wage earners are children, that's crazy. And we do not even talk about one percent of all social spending.

AUSTRIA: Will be cut also with the refugees …

Kaiser: … for people without a certificate of completion. This also concerns Austrians – and therefore already disadvantaged people.

AUSTRIA: What will Carinthia do now?

Kaiser: We will see what regional scope the law offers us. But that's where the future of many children is lost – what kind of politics is that?

(GU)