Social welfare chaos: Why people with disabilities have to suffer!

Social welfare chaos: Why people with disabilities have to suffer!

Laimgrubengasse 10, 1060 Wien, Österreich - The poverty conference puts your finger in the wound! People with disabilities who live in their parents' houses are excluded from social support if their parents themselves have little income. These outrageous grievances are particularly evident in Lower Austria and Upper Austria, as the network denounced at a press conference. The current social welfare network often even forces these disadvantaged people to sue their parents for maintenance. This leads to a vicious circle that massively restricts the self -determination and dignity of those affected, such as OTS reported.

The new regulations of social assistance promote social isolation instead of integration. Every third person entitled to claim does not receive the urgently needed support, especially in rural areas, where stigmatization and bureaucracy prevent the use of help. Social expert Martin Schenk calls this a dramatic step back in poverty. The poverty conference calls for a fundamental reform of the minimum security that ensures the fundamental rights of those affected instead of dining them with alms. These grievances affect not only people with disabilities, but also other vulnerable groups, such as women in need or families who have to suffer from the new conditions, such as Armutskonference reported.

drastic cuts for people in need

The new social welfare law provides that people with disabilities who live in their own apartments have to use their savings before they receive support. This regulation is a direct violation of Article 28 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabilities, which requires improvement in living conditions. In addition, the additional service limit is reduced radically, so that even slight income is no longer enough to live. For many, this means that they have to choose between survival and self -determination, while the administrative effort in the offices increases and the help will be reduced.

The poverty conference urgently suggests limiting the parents' maintenance obligation to the age of 25. In addition, a comprehensive reform of social assistance is necessary in order to enable people to protect existential and real participation. Urgent immediate aid, shorter decision -making periods and adequate residential allowance should ensure that nobody slips into poverty anymore. The political address for a comprehensive change is clear: Here you have to act quickly to give people what they are entitled to.