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February 14, 2012
Child benefits must be raised: Sahlin
Published: 16 Aug 09 09:50 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/21500/20090816/
Mona Sahlin, leader of the Swedish Social Democrats, has argued in a speech that child maintenance support benefit levels must be raised if the left-wing coalition wins next year's election. The background for the proposal is that the economic crisis has hit single parents particularly hard.
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She does not yet want to give an exact amount, but told TT news agency that the issue will be addressed in the party platform for the upcoming elections.
Sahlin said that the increase was timely “because unemployment among these groups has grown” and “because the effects of reduced unemployment benefits and healthcare have had greater impact on the household incomes of these single parents."
Speaking to a group of 800 in her home municipality of Nacka on Saturday, Sahlin criticized the government multiple points: the labour market, taxes, education, healthcare, its policy on Iran – but most of all on equality and equal opportunities.
Social Democrat leaders also want to tighten the requirements for private actors within healthcare and education. It should not be possible to make huge profits by lowering the quality or concentrating on particular target groups.
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The amount is pathetic - who can raise a child on less than 300 kr/week
The amount has only risen by 100kr since 1994
If the non residential parent can't/won't pay or can't be found the state pays an advance to the parent with the children of 1273 per month
The would is over populated so why does Sweden promote child birth.
They should make the absent parent pay for the child's up keep. If it was put into the tax offices control they would soon pay up.
Are you posting this drivel to just wind people up?? Löjligt!
Nobody can see into the future and know that their relationship/marriage will fall apart and they will end up separating!
Sweden promotes child birth because it has, along with Europe a very low rate of birth compared to other places in the world. If we are to fulfill pensions and the demand that will be placed on welfare and services we NEED to up the birthrate significantly.
What do you suggest the absent parent does to pay if he or she is not working??Go rob a bank for the money?
After all, these kids will be thankful one day (soon) to society in the amount of money you give them when they need it. Otherwise, angered parents would teach them to hate single old people. Things will end up in revolution with single oldies striped of money and everything when they really need it.
We don't want them to be angered parents with angered kids, do you?
Mb65 is making a valid point but it is not correct in the context of this subject...
With the world population growth forecasts and it's affect on the access to food and the effect on the environment, developed western countries need to change the way their economies work and deal with issues of pensions and growth without taking the short sighted approach encouraging increasing birth rates and immigration.
It is time to accept that we have to work until we are older. It is a necessary trade off from longer life expectancy we have.
Good point about retirement. People are living far longer nowadays - 80's and even 90's, so how can they realistically continue to expect to retire in their 50's. I'm self employed and accept that I will not be getting an early retirement.
http://www.ekonomifakta.se/sv/Fakta/Skatte...nternationellt/
Social tax is a tax on your income which is deducted by the employer as you are paid just like the other income taxes.
Of the money that is left of over, some of it is used to purchase goods and services that attract the 25% moms further increasing the tax burden on all tax payers.
VOTE SD
I think children deserve to be looked after in portion by the state, after all, when they grow up they will be doing their turn to support the running of the state that so kindly supported them. But I am surprisingly neutral to how much the state should actually dish out. Enough to show they care about child welfare but not so much it discourages people to work to provide for their families (a problem here in the UK let me tell you!). I doubt an increase of a couple of hundred kronor would do that.
Oh playmaker my friend, how did I know you would bring up the asylum seeker thing? ;)
A number of years ago, when I was unemployed and receiving "försöjningsbidrag" (Social welfare support), the child benefit amount was increased.
However, note, I did not benefit in any way!
I just got less monthly benefit as child benefit was taken into my "monthly income" column.
Hope Mona Sahlin can fix it so parents on benefit can actually BENEFIT!
Also, I think that parents with good income (easy to see via income tax office) shouldn't get child benefit (or atleast just a standard minimum amount per month). Some people say that the benefit belongs to the CHILD and not the parent, but I can imagine that in "rich" families they hardly notice it coming into to their account - whereas "poor" families are counting the days (and eating noodles) until the benefit arrives.
I know a family with 3 children, the parents both had great jobs. They saved up their child benefit and all flew off to Thailand for 2 weeks. Is that what child benefit is for, Mona Sahlin ?