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Bill: Basic income for the unemployed -3754
Details
Submitted by[?]: Socialdemokratia Partio - Keruloismo
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: October 3755
Description[?]:
| Unemployed people, who are actively search for work, will be granted unemployment benefits for a maximum of 4 months at a rate of 65% of their last income. Who can have unemployment benefits; - Persons who worked a minimum 5 years in their lives. - Persons who didn't requested unemployment benefits over the past 3 years. Mechanism; - Unemployed people must accept any job offer on their current skill and educational levels, failing to do so will result in a suspension for a period of 5 years. - Unemployed people must proof their efforts in search for work once every two week at the employment office, failing to do so will result in a suspension for a period of 5 years. Failing to proof adequate efforts to search for work will result in the lowering for the benefit to 45%. With a second failure the benefit period of 4 months will be suspended. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Guarantee of minimum income.
Old value:: There shall be no direct cash payments to individuals to guarantee a minimum income.
Current: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a reasonable, though not high, standard of living by the government.
Proposed: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government. However, the provision of this is not to exceed a certian period of time.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:10:06, November 08, 2014 CET | From |  Zardio Federisma Partio | To | Debating the Basic income for the unemployed -3754 |
| Message | We will support this measure begrudingly. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 433 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 217 |
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