S-the president of the julehjælp to the poor: the Solution is not to give them more money

- it Is an indictment of the welfare state that so many seek julehjælp?

- The short answer is: yes! says Mette Frederiksen, The leader.

But ... she has a lot but’is:

- In my eyes there is a difference whether one is ill and therefore can not work and might have ended up between the two services. It is that often examples of.

Or whether one is a young mother on the SU, which may find it difficult to get things to hang together in a period of time. But it is also an investment in the rest of life. There are many shades, if we want to enter and help.

Here it shows the Danish Folkehjælps statistics from this year, to julehjælpens applicants typically have been on welfare for seven years or more. They are single-parent families, that there are problems with abuse, illness, mental frailty, and to the total absence of a network or contact with their family.

- The 44.000 children now living in poverty, at least good, that they have lost in the welfare society's lottery?

- Yes. Children have an incredibly good sense of where they are right now in this society.

- And it has become more apparent, and harder for the children. In the past they had very few, what they should use. Today it is actually the opposite. And I think it makes a big difference. It is easier to handle missing something, if most other do too.

- the Statistics are crippling. You can put your finger on why applicants typically have so many difficulties at the same time?

- I meet many in the social assistance system, which has two particular challenges in addition to being on welfare: It is difficult to get a rent, that is to pay. The second is the debt.

- And I can actually understand, it happens: You are faced with one or another, but do not have much money, and so if you take a payday loan. Or you go down in the center, where you can just borrow $ 10,000. with a text and a signature. Suddenly there is interest rates of 15-18 per cent. It grows rapidly very large.

with the debt, I believe we can do something about: We need to simply clamp down on the companies, who speculate in people's misery.

Julehjælp - 4. dec. 2018 - at. 16:32 thank You, mom: a Single mother has used the ten-year-old daughter's confirmation money on food

- Jann Sjursen (spokesman for the socially disadvantaged, ed.) says in connection with the julehjælp that we are moving from a welfare state to a alms-society?

Hmm. I frequently discuss with Jann Sjursen, and when you listen to him, so is it just to put benefits up. But as we have seen, the statistics show that it is not right.

- Benefits are important, and the basic level must be in order. But it does not solve the problems by giving people more money. It makes you just not.

- Many families need other kinds of help. For example, help to get work, if there is no disease. For many of the applicants is cash benefit been a lasting performance, and it is unsustainable. Some of them are sick and should not be on social assistance.

- For many of the children are the circumstances, which is really hard. You have to think very much.

- Just such a small thing, as more and more schools are introducing something with nissevenner.

- There, I think, to have a joint commitment to find a level where everyone can participate. It need not be gifts for 50 kr. the piece. It is just so fun to get a lollipop of a nisseven, as it is to get a or another gift from the Sisters of Branches to 35 kr.

- How can people end up out on the exaggerated, where they are lacking a network?

- As a society we are just not managed to do away with the negative social inheritance. The live in the best of health. If you live as exposed child, there is a big risk that you get it hard as a young man and adult. We are not good at, as a society, to say: You damn sure don't pay the bill, that it did not your mother and father well. Now we make sure you get a better foundation to stand on.

- In a new tv program try a tv host to give krammere to kontanthjælps receivers and send them on livsstilshøjskole. It helps?

- (sugar) There are infinitely many annoying tv programmes where everything is possible. It is always something that someone needs to lose weight, someone to teach their dog not to bark. I don't see it. It smacks of a middle class that will want to tell all sorts of other how to live life.

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Mette's christmas: My brother got the best gifts

Mette Frederiksen loves traditions, and has already eaten santa clause three times. Photo: Linda Johansen
Mette Frederiksen's own childhood was far from the rat race today.

Then it was fat, if the mother had baked a cake for the class. Now you must the account for at forældreintra, what it is for something flour, that is in the buns. It's all been so inflated.

- What gets you up in the julegear?

- I love christmas food. I've already got the roast pork three times with brown gravy, roasted potatoes and red cabbage. I am from north!

- I also loved the juletraditionerne as a child: medister, pork, potatoes and grønlangkål.

- Are there gifts that you particularly remember?

- I can remember from my earliest childhood, that my brother, who was five years older, got a Playmobil pirate ship. And I got dolls. He was always – in my eyes – the coolest christmas gifts. Always something to build and technique. And I got something pussenusse.

In the ceiling above the christmas presents at home?

- Yes, we did. And christmas eve is it only the children who get gifts.

- do you Dream to escape the south in christmas?

- not at all. I'm totally a family man at christmas. The first day of christmas, where the kids sleep long, running around in pyjamas and watching an old julefilm on the tv. I will not exchange with anything.

Last year got 9540 single-parent families on public service a julehjælpspakke, which has a value of 1500 kr: A gift card for Rema, a gift card to BR and a gift certificate to the Sportmaster. More than 15,000 single-parent families have applied, and there is preliminary collected money so 9177 families can get help. the

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