On 17 March the Danish parliament adopted a government draft law reforming the social services system in a bid to encourage those on benefits to reenter the jobs market. The main changes include a new social assistance ceiling, the obligation to work 225 hours of ‘regular’ employment in the year in order to retain all the benefits, and a reduction in holiday time for benefits receivers from five to four weeks.
“The new social assistance ceiling ensures there is a significant difference between receiving public aid and financing a person’s needs via work. Beyond just being common sense this is also a fair and appropriate measure vis-à-vis the many who get up early in this country to go to work,” declared the Minister for Labor Jørn Neergaard Larsen, who welcomed the parliamentary adoption of the social assistance reform bill on 17 March, which the government had announced in October 2015 (c.f.
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