Future welfare must be earned

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Everyone living in or moving to Denmark, will in future earn the right to health care, education and social services. According to Politiken's information is a committee of the government arrived at around 30 specific proposals on welfare issues, as the government's finance committee to consider this week.

Minister for Employment Inger Støjberg (V) is leading the work. She hopes that vesting principles of welfare are far more prevalent than today.

Proposal to the accruals
Childbirth: Employment Requirements rises from 13 to 26 weeks to receive maternity benefits.

SU: The candidate the training given SU ​​as interest-only loans. The deductible for the loan if you subsequently work in Denmark.

Pension: You must have lived in Denmark for 45 years to get full state pension.

Doctor: The first two years in Denmark required user fees for visits to the doctor.

The government is expected within a few weeks to present the final proposal.
"The time has come for us to see much more on accrual principles. It is important that you should make before you can enjoy. Today our system vulnerable, because you can readily enjoy, "she says.

According to Politiken's information is among the proposals that aliens outside the EU the first two years in Denmark must pay a portion of their medical visit itself. Foreigners must also have been in Denmark for a longer time than today to receive SU, and it may become a reality that a portion of SU recorded as interest-only loans.

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In education also proposed a more far-reaching proposal that foreigners must meet certain requirements before their children can get a free secondary education.

Harder to get benefits
In addition, it is the catalog that the requirements to obtain a number of services increased. Among others, it is proposed that the right to full pension requires 45 years of residence in Denmark at the moment 40 years. The degree of how much you have to be in Denmark for early retirement should be raised, suggests government committee, and employment requirement for maternity highlighted.

'Our welfare is under pressure because we have a model where the treasure chest opens up after a very short time. Earning Principles will be a good solution to ease the pressure, "said Inger Støjberg.

Preliminary calculations show that several vesting principles would give the state a revenue of around 1 billion. Sterling. But the final amount determined by how many areas will include politicians, and how tough the requirements are.

DF has proposed tightening rules
Danish People's Party proposed in the fall that would have paid tax for seven years to get access to welfare benefits.

"There is basically no benefits that are protected. It is pertinent to look more broadly in the welfare area, where you can make the kind of thing that prevents people coming from outside, can just come in and share in our welfare, "said Danish People's Party's finance policy, Dahl said.

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It is expected that the final proposals for accrual principles is ready in a few weeks and that they become part of the 2020 economic plan, which the government begins negotiations this spring.

Do not break the conventions
The government had hoped that earnings from vesting principles were larger, but conventions and constitution impede that desire. EU citizens and refugees can not be subjected to special rules, and hence, the rules are not quite general, include a fairly small group.

"We look unbiased to both benefits and service. But it is clear that we will not break any conventions, EU law or the constitution, "said Inger Støjberg.

In parallel, within the various government wants the work, entitled 'residents right to welfare benefits'. Left will signal a harder line with value political actions, while the conservatives are worried that too many barriers will scare highly educated workers away. One concern that the Danish Employers' Confederation share:

"It is totally, totally essential that principles do not require businesses or employees extra burdens. So, companies will leave the country. Our competitiveness is already not as it should be, "says director of DA Jørn Neergaard Larsen.

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