Historic Shift in 1 Year: Belgium Now Has More People Receiving Social Welfare Benefits than Unemployed People.
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As a result of the reform of the De Wever government, which restricts unemployment benefits to two years, the number of beneficiaries of the CPAS now exceeds that of the unemployed who are compensated in Belgium. ...
Key takeaways A profound shift has occurred in the Belgian social security landscape. For the first time, the number of people receiving a living wage from the Public Centre for Social Welfare (OCMW) exceeds the number of people receiving a full unemployment benefit, reports De Standaard. Structural change The extent of this shift becomes clear when we look at the data from a […]
Source: BelgaFor the first time, the number of people making use of the CPAS exceeds that of the unemployed receiving benefits, writes De Standaard on Monday. The policy of the De Wever government substantially reintroduces the welfare state. In August of last year, the country still had almost twice as many full unemployed (304,000) as Belgians receiving income from social integration from a CPAS (166,000). But last August, the number of unempl…
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