Reform of social assistance « at the top of the agenda » of the government – Diepresse.com
In an “current hour”, the FPÖ criticized social assistance as a “social hammock for illegal immigrants”.
The Vienna election has arrived in the National Council. The FPÖ used the “current hour” it designed at the meeting on Thursday to criticize Wiener Social Welfare as a “social hammock for illegal immigrants and asylum seekers”. Minister of Social Affairs Korinna Schumann (SPÖ) announced that he would soon redesign social assistance.
The session had started with a minute of fun for the late head of the Pensioners’ Association Peter Kostelka (SPÖ) and for Pope Francis. At the « current hour » afterwards, FPÖ mandate Dagmar Belakovich spoke of people from the Arab world who did not work and would only come to Austria « to cash in ». The working population that bears the welfare state, on the other hand, must serve when it comes to savings. In the meantime, the budget numbers would explode and unemployment would increase month after month. In Vienna there is the possibility of a change in the election on Sunday, it finally campaigned for a vote for the FPÖ.
Reference duration on average nine months
The government would work on an improvement, said Schumann. After all, a “social assistance” is found in the government program, which is said to be uniform across Austria. The aim is that occupational people find work as quickly as possible. ÖVP mandate Michael Hammer emphasized that social assistance was « at the top of the agenda ». Those who did not want to work would have to be sanctioned.
The reference period would be nine months on average, says Schumann. In addition, she found that asylum seekers were excluded from social assistance, they only received basic care. However, there is access to the asylum voids, but they would have to be available to the labor market and complete integration measures.
With “Owei Owei, election campaign”, Markus Koza (Greens) acknowledged the debate. Social assistance is certainly not a social hammock, he said, referring to the composition of the social welfare recipients. Two thirds are either too old, too young or too sick to work or would work anyway.
Neos: « Latte of Investigations » against FPÖ politician
The system, which the FPÖ complains, was introduced under the free Minister of Social Affairs Beate Hartinger-Klein, accused Hammer of the now opposition party. SPÖ club chairman Philip Kucher and Neos club chairman Yannick Shetty in turn criticized the freedoms for their expenses affair. There is a « latte of investigations » against FPÖ politicians who would have hung up a golden hammock, says Shetty. Finally, former party leader Heinz-Christian Strache and his environment at the time would be suspected of having financed private expenses with party money. (APA)
