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Support or communal work?

Support or communal work?. Eszter Siposné Nándori University of Miskolc, Hungary. Content. Social programmes Problems in the system of social supports Aspects to improve the functioning of the system How to realize the improvement? Analysis of ‘communal work instead of supports’.

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Support or communal work?

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  1. Support or communal work? Eszter Siposné Nándori University of Miskolc, Hungary

  2. Content • Social programmes • Problems in the system of social supports • Aspects to improve the functioning of the system • How to realize the improvement? • Analysis of ‘communal work instead of supports’

  3. Social programmes • Social support • Regular social grant • Housing grant • Public health care • Bereavement grant • Day cure and welfare centers • Pension • Parental pension • Social catering • Heating grant

  4. Child care allowances • Antenatal and puerperal grant • Family allowance • Child care allowance • Maternity grant • Extraordinary child-protection grant • Home establishment grant • Child rearing grant

  5. Grants for the underprivileged • Training • Help to become entrepreneur • Extend the level of employment • Job search allowance (unemployment benefit) • Parking card • Handicap allowance

  6. The number of those who got support in 2007 in the subregions of Hungary Resource: HCSO, 2007

  7. Problems in the recent system • ‘strategic’ child rearing • entitlement to support and working illegally in the same time • less resources for those who requires help • feeling of social injustice • ‘supported lifestyle’

  8. Aspects of the improvement • Stimulation of working • Not full-time types of working • Distinguishing the group of the undeserving poor

  9. ”Way to work” Compulsory work test Exclusion of those who work illegally Stimulation Supporting measures Proposal of three mayors Entitlement to child care allowance Entitlement to regular social grant - work test How to realize the improvement?

  10. Analysis of the proposals • Socially acceptable living standard • Efficiency • Cost analysis

  11. 1. Living standard The amount of the average per capita regular social grant and the subsistence level between 2000 and 2006 in Hungary (in thousand euro)

  12. Distinguishing the undeserving poor • Exclusion of those who work illegally • Humiliation

  13. Vertically Work test, but exception: large families Horizontally Enough communal work (day cure, food delivery, catering, etc.) Non-prefect acceptance Do not know about the possibilities Uncomfortable Feeling of stigmatization 2. Efficiency

  14. 3. Analysis of costs • Amount of supports + administrative costs • Work test more resources • Expansion of communal work (15+10 billion HUF)

  15. Conclusion • Several problems • Reintegration the poor to the society • Work test • Communal work

  16. Thank you for you kind attention!

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