On 2 Jan, 18:56, "Baroness Edwina Frogbucket"
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> > ....I should give up my day job.....
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> >http://www.flandersnews.be/cm/flandersnews.be/News/N_080102leefloon
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> > Minimum subsistence benefit rises
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> > Wed 02/01/08 - There is good news for people on the breadline.
> > Belgium's minimum subsistence benefit is being increased by 2% this
> > month.
> > To take account of inflation a further 2% is also being added.
> > (Belga)
> > Social Integration Minister Christian Dupont (photo) announced the
> > rise last Monday.
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> > Some 78,000 people are currently on minimum subsistence benefit.
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> > In future singles will receive just over 683 euros a month.
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> > Members of a couple each get nearly 912 euros.
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> > Despite the rise people on this benefit will still be below the
> > poverty line.
> > Catching up under Verhofstadt
> > Since the start of Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt's first
> > administration in 1999 minimum subsistence benefit has steadily been
> > on the rise.
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> > It's argued that a single needs 822 euros a month to get by without
> > living in poverty.
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> > After a fall in the numbers on this benefit that started in 2000
> > figures are once again on the rise.
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> > There has also been a regional shift.
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> > The number of claimants has fallen in Flanders and Wallonia, but has
> > risen in Brussels.
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> > More and more women are today among the claimants.
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> > Half of all claimants are single mothers or fathers.
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> Do they get Housing Benefit and the like, over there?
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> Baroness Edwina Frogbucket
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