Proposition de loi visant à supprimer la limitation des allocations d'insertion dans le temps.
General information ¶
- Authors
- PVDA | PTB Raoul Hedebouw, Sofie Merckx, Nadia Moscufo, Marco Van Hees, Thierry Warmoes
- Submission date
- Oct. 1, 2019
- Official page
- Visit
- Status
- Rejected
- Requirement
- Simple
- Subjects
- youth unemployment unemployment unemployment insurance
Voting ¶
- Voted to adopt
- Groen CD&V Vooruit Ecolo LE PS | SP Open Vld N-VA LDD MR VB
- Voted to reject
- PVDA | PTB
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Discussion ¶
June 22, 2023 | Plenary session (Chamber of representatives)
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Nadia Moscufo PVDA | PTB ⚙
Mr. Speaker, our group would like to submit to vote a bill aimed at removing the limitation operated on insertion allowances in time. In our country, young people who are leaving school but who, after a year of research, still do not find work are entitled to an insertion allowance. They had the right to do so until the age of thirty. Subsequent reforms took place, among other things under the Di Rupo government; these allocations were then limited to a maximum duration of three years. And under the Michel government, they were limited to young people up to twenty-five years old. This is a real problem because the reality is completely different. Many young people leave school at the age of 24. If they do not find work in the first year, at the age of twenty-five, they simply do not have access to that right.
The consequences of these two reforms are quite catastrophic for our youth. The number of young people who are eligible has increased from 90,000 to 30,000. Two out of three young people were excluded. The right-wing philosophy behind this was to say that by excluding people from their right to unemployment, they would be acting faster to find work. But the reality shows that it is not by excluding people that we help them find work. On the contrary! They are even put in a difficult financial situation that no longer allows them to move to find a job. The PTB is not the only one to say this. Even the National Bank said, a few years ago, that the impact of these measures on employment was indeed very marginal.
As for youth groups, the Flemish Youth Council among others fully supports our bill for the reasons I mentioned. Furthermore, the opinion given by the Federation of CPAS indicated that, since the entry into force of these measures, there have been much more requests for aid at the level of CPAS. CPAS with a fairly limited budget, this poses problems for the CPAS themselves but also for CPAS workers who, in turn, must manage much more work. There is no further commitment to the cause.
Instead, it is a measure that will further extend the long list of young people who are in poverty. This measure puts them in poverty first individually, as a person. But many of them are then “absorbed” by the family. It is then that the family begins to become impoverished.
I would like to briefly recall the history of our bill. This is a proposal that we had attached to an Ecolo-Groen proposal filed in March 2022 as well as a PS proposal. Today, we decided that it was time to submit it to vote. As my colleague Sofie Merckx pointed out, we appeal to both parties that had submitted the same proposal as us.
We are slowly coming to the end of the legislature. This is the right time to write this point into your balance sheet, history to show that you will have at least advanced on the issue of this youth, which is the future of our society. We don’t want it to remain on the margins and leave the radar of our society.