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NEWS
Additional Cut in Income Support at End of Month
by G. Kleiman
At the end of June the cut in Guaranteed Income allotments
approved in December is scheduled to take effect and 108,000
low-income families will lose an average of NIS 600 of their
monthly income.
Guaranteed Income is allocated to hundreds of thousands of
Israelis who are unable to work or whose income is below
minimum-wage levels, along with handicapped housewives,
orphans and alcoholics. The Knesset decided to tighten the
eligibility criteria, a move that is expected to lead to
thousands of young people losing their eligibility
entirely.
Among those who will be affected by the cut are 46,000 single-
parent families with two children, 42,000 immigrant families
and 11,000 working women who receive essential support
payments from Bituach Leumi. Eleven-thousand four-hundred-and-
fifty citizens will stop receiving Guaranteed Income entirely
and thousands will have to return money they have received
since the law was ratified.
In August the reductions in Child Support Payments
[kitzva'os yeladim] are slated to begin taking effect,
bringing tens of thousands of additional families into the
cycle of poverty.
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