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Vienna – Associations close to the church, members of the NGO SOS, ÖGB and AK as well as scientists from different universities Wednesday criticized the "Guarantee of the new minimum". Diakonie, the Catholic Family Association and Catholic Action have demanded the removal of planned reductions in children and families. SOS other human beings are misled by the statements of the government.
The low wages opposed to the beneficiaries of the minimum income
Diakonie director Maria Katharina Moser warned in a statement that low-income "hard-working people" did not oppose a lazy "lazy minimum income" game. She criticized the staggered contributions in children, who in the future for a child around 216 euros, for the second 130 and from the third only 43 euros make up.
In addition, the comparison – made by the government – of a low-income family man with a family of three children enjoying the minimum guarantee is misleading: "If a family man with three children and a low net income When he loses his job, he finds himself unemployed.This amount is so low that he has the right to increase the minimum income, provided that he does not have an income account. savings, no co-ownership, no life insurance If the minimum income for large families is reduced, it will hurt workers with children, low income and hard working, for whom the federal government claims more than 39, equity. "
The Catholic Family Association also takes a critical view of minimum benefit rates for children: "The number of people who must earn income should not matter," said the president of the badociation, Alfred Trendl . Similarly, the president of the Catholic Action in Austria (KAÖ), Leopold Wimmer, said: "Saving at the expense of families and children, who have little things anyway, is the wrong choice." The savings announced for children will concern "all families without exception". this also applies to the many Aufstocker. This is after all 70% of the recipients, Wimmer pointed out.
Human SOS Companion: Several lost families
SOS other human beings accused the government of misleading the public and published several "corrections" to the federal government's statements. Thus, not only the unemployed and those not physically able to lose would lose "partially mbadively", but also those who work and retirees who increase their income to the amount of the minimum income.
Parents of several children would lose by no later than the third child in all provinces – and regardless of their citizenship, said SOS. But even couples without children would receive much less: in Vienna, for example, up to 1,036 euros per year if they have compulsory schooling or proof of language skills and up to 8,236 euros per year without compulsory schooling nor proof of their language skills.
Commenting on improvements to single-parent families highlighted by the government, the NGO said they had received "just a little more," and only if they had compulsory schooling or proof of their language skills. And even if only "if they do not have more than two children, otherwise they also lose a little dramatic".
Tax deductions for children but not reducing performance
The ÖGB welcomed on Thursday that the deductions from the minimum income starting in the autumn of 2019 for the breadwinner and the child, with regard to the statements of the presentation, are not credited for the reduction. performs. Social Affairs Minister Hartinger-Klein (FPÖ) announced this after the Council of Ministers, but the project was also included in the press documents. The Hartinger-Kleins spokesman picked it up later and spoke of an "error in the document". "The experts of the ÖGB are then delighted to contribute to the search for additional errors, to save the government from another shame – and citizens face another Huschpfusch law," Bernhard said. Achitz, Secretary General of the ÖGB.
AK President, Renate Anderl, called on the government, in this context, to "more care": "This puts people in the uncertainty of whether the minimum security reform is officially presented after the Council of Ministers – and then the government does not present a legal text and must continue to do so. " Correct the day itself. In addition, Anderl criticized the fact that these plans nevertheless involved significant reductions.
Kollross (SPÖ): "Just asocial"
On Thursday, SPÖ MP Andreas Kollross described the government's plan as "simply anti-social". "This government is making fun of all those people who did not grow up with the golden spoon in their mouth," said SPÖ's spokesman.
Several professors from national universities also spoke critically. The government has given the impression of wanting to save, especially with immigrants and asylum seekers, has it been written in an open letter published on the home page of the Institute of Sociology. "The planned cuts (…) will particularly affect sick people, people with disabilities, retirees, children and people in employment whose income or unemployment insurance benefits are not enough for a lifetime. decent, "write the signatories. Professors around Jörg Flecker of the Institute of Sociology at the University of Vienna also pointed out that the right to this support is independent of previous contributions to social insurance. "Because the minimum income most often temporarily tied is not an insurance benefit, but constitutes the lowest safety net to help people in need of dignity."
Johann Gudenus, director of the FPÖ club, underlined, despite the criticisms, that the new regulation provided for the elimination of a "social imbalance": he envisaged for example to create a family with three children with family allowances s raising to 2,696 net euros a month, while a minimum guarantee would be three families. Children without knowledge of German receive up to 3 353 euros per month. (APA)
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