Municipalities expenses for social assistance increased by 9 percent last year. Together they disbursed 5.6 billion in loans and benefits, an increase of 10 percent, the preliminary Kostra figures for 2014.
36 percent of welfare recipients are immigrants. The proportion has increased significantly in recent years, writes Municipal Report.
Integration policy
Spending growth is partly a large increase in the number of social assistance recipients, partly that benefit amounts were higher and that several receiving social prolonged . Nearly one third of social recipients – 47,500 of 134,700 people – went on “welfare” in more than six months.
– There is every reason to look at the entire portfolio of instruments again, to see how we can stop the growth in the use of social assistance. This applies both in integration policy, labor market policy and housing policy, says director of interest policy Helge Eide KS to Municipal Report.
Lite schooling
It is the second consecutive year that social expenditure increases, after many years of decline and level off.
– I’m a little worried that the problem of poverty in Norway more and more will be about immigrants. Here we have not accurate instruments, said service director Bjorn Gudbjørgsrud Nav to Municipal Rapports weekly newspaper Thursday.
His concern revolves primarily about refugees who do not come out to work after having completed two years of introductory and two year qualification program. Many have little schooling and work experience from home and need more tuition and longer education to qualify for Norwegian working life, according Gudbjørgsrud.
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