The government is preparing a scrapping of the allowance – Swedish Radio

The government is preparing a scrapping of the allowance – Swedish Radio

Just before Christmas, the Riksdag held that the allowance should be left behind. Despite this, the government is preparing now a bill that it should be scrapped.

– We are fully aware of it, but think after all this is such a fundamentally important issue that we want to let try it in parliament again . We will take contacts in the spring to try to get broader support for our bill simply says Minister for Social Annika Strandhäll.

Is it easy or hard for you to go against a notice from parliament?
– It’s not something you take lightly by any means, and, of course tarvat both analysis and reflection. But as I say, this is the principle. It is an action that has very strange effects on the labor market.

In the budget for 2015, the one that was voted down in parliament, the government announced that the allowance should be abolished. The announcement received the bourgeois parties and the Sweden Democrats to urge the government to reconsider – and keep the grant. A so-called announcement to this effect was clubbed in parliament in December.

Still prepares Minister for Social Annika Strandhäll now a bill that the allowance should be removed. For the Christian Democrats, the contribution is a matter of the heart and the party’s group leader Emma Henriksson is very critical that the government intends to defy the decision of Parliament.

– It’s provocative about the government, when you just received a decision from parliament that one should not return to the Riksdag with a proposal, still on its list of the proposals it intends to bring, bring it here. It’s not showing respect for the legislative branch, she says.

Minister for Social Annika Strandhäll is aware that it is unusual for a government in this way goes against a call from Riksdag. But she believes that the allowance is so bad for equality that must be scrapped.

– The childcare allowance is indeed a very inefficient measure, which also entailed a lock-in effect for many women. Many are long-term unemployed, and many have a different ethnic background.

Strandhäll hope at least a bourgeois party to go to the rest of the Alliance and in the fall vote in favor of removing the allowance.

– I think of course definitely it seems that there is an opening now to reason with the Liberal Party, who previously had a clear position on this issue and wanted to remove the allowance. It is gratifying to see that they express it again.

To abolish the allowance is one of the proposals in the Liberal Party’s new integration policy. Party leader Jan Björklund do not provide information on how the party will act when the parliament will decide on the next bill.

Promise Olsson
lova.olsson@sverigesradio.se