SF will specifically raise unemployment benefits by up to DKK 4,000 per month for the first three months. However, this presupposes that you have been in employment two out of the last three years, and that you have been a member of an unemployment insurance fund for four years.
If you have only been a member for two years, the promise is up to 2000 kroner.
At the same time, the educations, including in particular the vocational educations, must be raised by DKK 1 billion annually when the proposal is fully phased in.
– For years, savings have been made on our educations, at the same time as unemployment benefits have become less valuable. We must reverse that development. We want to increase security and fight inequality by investing in our welfare, says Pia Olsen Dyhr.
The most controversial part of SF’s proposal is the funding. The party believes that homeowners should pay for the improvements for the unemployed. This must be done by lowering the deduction for interest that homeowners currently have access to.
SF wants to lower the interest deduction by five percentage points over five years. For most homeowners, according to SF, this will mean that the value of the deduction falls from about 33 percent to about 28 percent of the interest expense.
At the same time, however, SF proposes that in future you only get the high interest deduction for interest up to DKK 40,000 per person per year. Today, the limit is 50,000 kroner. Interest above the limit can today be deducted by about 25 percent. SF will also reduce this percentage by five percentage points.
– Prices in the housing market have slipped, and it risks leaving a divided society, where the people who have invested in housing at the right time are suddenly on the winning team, while everyone else is left on the platform.
– We want to curb housing prices to curb inequality in our society, and we will do so by taking advantage of the low interest rates to lower the interest deduction and invest that money in our community instead, says Pia Olsen Dyhr.
Source: The Nordic Page