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Minimum income in Belgium

Learn about the Belgium Minimum Income program and its conditions for eligibility, coverage, and non-take-up. Discover the reasons for non-take-up and actions to address this issue.

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Minimum income in Belgium

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  1. Minimum income in Belgium Coverage and non-take-up

  2. The Belgium Minimum Income => Social rights based approach 1974 Every person has the right to social services. This aims to provide citizens with the opportunity to live a life that responds to human dignity. Local social public centers have the task to ensure this services.

  3. Minimum income : Conditions and eligibility • Residence in Belgium • Minimum 18 years of age • Income lower than the minimum income amount • Prepared to work • Social inquiry • Take up of other social rights • Individualised project for social integration

  4. State of play of non-take-up • Scientific 2002 - Traps and springboards in European minimum income systems – the Belgian case 2007 – Examination of under protection 2011 – A first computation of non-take up behavior 2014 – Social Fraud • Experience – participation - campaigns General report on poverty – 1994 Experts by experience

  5. Reasons for non-take-up • Ignorance • Negative experiences • Stigmatisation • Complexity of procedures and formalities • Ever changing regulations • Organisation of the institutions (opening hours, online applications, …) • Conditions and contracts

  6. Actions and suggestions At the level of the institution - Information, video’s,action • Manuals for local • Typology, checklist, … • Outreach activities • Implication of volunteers or users

  7. Actions and suggestions At central level : - Automation of social rights and derived social rights • Political priority in the governmental declaration 2014-2019 • Crossroadbank for Social Security • Only Once legislation

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