Half -time work does not count fully for unemployment benefits: has Arizona eroded an exception?
« This is how you punish women, » says Stefaan van Hecke van Groen.
The mindless people of 55 are losing their benefits. According to opposition party Groen, Arizona did not charge half -time work completely, as agreed.
The royal piece of the Arizona government, the limitation of unemployment in time, continues to cause commotion. The parties of the majority were surprised that 82 percent of the unemployed people over 55 will soon lose their benefits. It appears that the majority of the elderly do not get thirty years of worked and therefore has no exception. But according to opposition party Groen, Arizona did not respect its own coalition agreement in the legislation, so that almost no one reaches thirty years.
To get to those thirty years, a 55-year-old must have worked 156 days a year. So half -time. But according to De Groenen, the majority parties did not translate that well into legislation. « The Program Act contains a construction error that ensures that anyone who worked a small part of the career part -time cannot meet the career condition anyway. » Specific example: those who have worked full -time for twenty years and ten years part -time, only comes to 25 years and sees their benefits simply deleted.
That while the coalition agreement stated that people over 55 who worked for 30 years of 156 days were given an exception. It is very technical, but it is different in the legal text. It states that the total number of working days is shared by 312 (a full -time year). If the rest of the division is higher or equal to 156, one full year will be added. In other words, the other half -time years do not count at all for a full year.
Stefaan Van Hecke, party leader for greenery, and his employees tracked down the problem. « This is how you punish many people, especially women. This cannot be the intention? That ahead and CD&V indicate that nothing can be sent to this law anymore, is not going on at Groen. We will submit an amendment to the Program Act to resolve this. Is this really the policy they want to pursue? » Van Hecke speaks frightened about « incompetence ».
