Fight poverty, not the poor!
In recent years, there have been repeated discussions in Austria about minimum income, its recipients and the amount of this benefit. In the summer of 2016, Upper Austria cut the minimum benefit for persons entitled to asylum and subsidiary protection and introduced a limit on the amount received by households. In Lower Austria, forced labor was also ordered for recipients of minimum benefits. Many people find themselves increasingly at risk of poverty as a result of the tightening of minimum income legislation. - Other federal states have also amended their minimum income legislation.
Am 11. Dezember lädt die juridikum. zeitschrift für kritik – recht – gesellschaft in Kooperation mit der Armutskonferenz zur „debatte: mindestsicherung“ ein, um diese besorgniserregende Entwicklung zu diskutieren. Es erwartet euch eine spannende Debatte mit interessanten Expertinnen:
Martina Kargl
Social Policy Officer Caritas Vienna / Austrian Poverty Conference
Petra Sußner
Head of Social and Tenancy Law at the Diakonie Refugee Service
Mag.a Marina Kaspar
University Assistant prae doc at the Institute for Austrian and European Public Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
The event starts at 19:00 and will take place in SEM10 at the Juridicum in Vienna.
More information can be found in the Facebook event
