KrF goes against his own policy of protecting the child

This confirms KFK's tax spokesperson, Kjell Ingolf Ropstad, at NTB.

– The KrF has programmed that child benefits are excluded from the welfare calculation basis. As Red's proposal has a budgetary impact, we can not support it. We are bound by the budget agreement with the government parties for 2019, "he said.

The proposal in red was presented at a meeting of the Storting Finance Committee on Tuesday during the state budget review of the following year. "Parliament calls on the government to ensure that municipalities hold family allowances without calculating social benefits and to provide funds to compensate for this in the revised national budget for 2019".

Fall outside

On Monday, Dagbladet wrote that nearly 50,000 children do not benefit from social welfare on March 1 of next year after the KrF has seized this in the budget negotiations. . The reason is that the vast majority of municipalities consider the child allowance as income and deduct the amount before calculating the amount of social assistance that the family will receive.

Last year, 47,878 children from families received reduced social assistance because of family allowances, figures from KOSTRA (Local Government Reporting).

"It would be nice if it creates a debate around the municipalities, my call is to stop raising the child allowance in income before calculating social assistance." According to Ropstad, it is a matter of money. an important topic that KrF will consider in the state budget for 2020.

KrF's sorrow of love

The red leader and parliamentary representative, Bjørnar Moxnes, pointed out that the KrF party itself points out that the increase in the number of poor families is one of the reasons why the increase in family allowances is important.

"But the increase is not worth much if we do not end up with the fact that many municipalities are removing day care for welfare recipients, so we suggest that the government ensure that Increased children benefit all families and do not exclude welfare recipients, he told NTB.

Moxnes writes that KrF has done more to increase childcare than the red and blue parties over the past 20 years. The budget agreement stipulates that the child allowance is increased by NKr 1 000 per year and NKr 1,054 as from 1 March 2019.

Budget delayed

The Storting Finance Committee made its recommendation on the state budget the following year, an extra week. The parties of the government, the party of progress and the left came a week ago to agree on the 2019 budget of the KrF.

The internal restructuring process of the KrF has resulted in a shift of the budget process from one week, which means that the financial debate will be held on December 3rd. However, the dealership agreement last Tuesday meant that there was no more postponement.

In addition to the increase in family allowances, the KrF has taken the decision to abolish VAT exemptions on foreign trade by increasing the minimum pension for single pensioners of NOK 4,000 from autumn and allocate more resources to nursery and kindergarten staff.