{"id":20247,"date":"2022-11-04T07:25:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T07:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/celebrated-increased-housing-benefit-missing-more-than-800-million-news-norway-overview-of-news-from-various-parts-of-the-country\/"},"modified":"2022-11-04T07:25:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T07:25:14","slug":"celebrated-increased-housing-benefit-missing-more-than-800-million-news-norway-overview-of-news-from-various-parts-of-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/celebrated-increased-housing-benefit-missing-more-than-800-million-news-norway-overview-of-news-from-various-parts-of-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrated increased housing benefit – missing more than 800 million – news Norway – Overview of news from various parts of the country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

– With this agreement, some of the most vulnerable groups in society are secured over 1.2 billion more in electricity support, a happy SV deputy leader Torgeir Knag Fylkesnes could say on Monday 24 October. – More will receive housing benefit, and they will receive more electricity support until April 2023, he added. Housing benefit is a government scheme for people with low incomes and high housing costs. At the same time, an additional electricity subsidy has been “hooked on” the housing allowance during the electricity price crisis. From SV’s press release almost two weeks ago, it appeared that the party had agreed with the Labor Party and the Center Party to: increase the income limit for housing benefit until June 2023 by continuing the temporary extension. This means that more people will receive housing benefit. Cost: NOK 220 million. give an extra NOK 1,500 in housing benefit from January to April, beyond the government’s proposal. Cost: NOK 604 million. The cost estimates, a total of NOK 824 million, are confirmed by the governing parties. But there was one thing that was not clear from the press release from SV, namely how the new measures will be financed. The answer was to be found in the text of the agreement itself: The parties agree that expenses in 2023 will be covered in the state budget negotiations. As is known, those negotiations have not started yet. They will only get started in a week, after SV has today presented its alternative budget for next year. – Will be demanding The Center Party’s fiscal policy spokesperson Geir Pollestad has helped to negotiate the agreement with SV. He will also negotiate the national budget. Then there will be a fierce tug-of-war to find money to finance SV’s many demands and priorities – in a budget the government has promised to keep tight. Pollestad points out that the housing benefit promise that has now been made for 2023 provides predictability. – The agreement will give people certainty that more people will receive housing benefit, and that they will receive increased support through the winter. It is important with the high electricity prices we have. But when it comes to funding, he has a small warning for SV: – It is important to emphasize that this must be included in the work on the state budget for 2023. It is not least important to find coverage for the proposal. It’s going to be demanding. SV entered the negotiations, which ended last Monday, with a demand to change the model for electricity support. The party would have increased support for consumption up to 1,000 and 2,000 kilowatt hours and a ceiling of 3,000 kilowatt hours a month, compared to 5,000 today. – We have ensured that it is the government’s model for electricity subsidies that applies in the future. It was not relevant for Sp and Ap to agree to deprive groups of people of electricity support, says Pollestad. DEMANDING: Aps Eigil Knutsen (th) and Sps Geir Pollestad will negotiate next year’s state budget with SV in November. Photo: Alf Simensen \/ NTB \u2013 Mutual challenge SV deputy chairman Torgeir Knag Fylkesnes acknowledges that the agreement that was entered into was unusual, because it extends into next year. The package of proposals from the government was mainly about the 2022 budget. But the County Council points out at the same time that both electricity support for businesses and increased electricity support for households, which were in the proposal, extend into next year and thus into next year’s budget. – For us, support for household and housing allowance has always been thought of in conjunction. It has also been the result of negotiations both in December last year, in March and now, says Fylkesnes to news. – The reason why we didn’t just want to limit ourselves to 2022 was that we wanted to create security for all those who depend on housing benefit to deal with the electricity crisis, so that they don’t have to live in uncertainty until Christmas, he says. – But aren’t you now going into the budget negotiations with a deficit in your account? – We are very clear that it is a mutual challenge that we must solve. We have many good suggestions for covering. For our part, this is something we will not have problems with prioritizing, says Fylkesnes, who adds: – This is not a start to the budget negotiations for 2023 in terms of investments, it is a closed agreement. Fylkesnes believes that this means that not only SV, but also the government parties, must contribute to finding money for the investment in housing allowance and electricity subsidy over the New Year.
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