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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:55:41 +0200
From: Robert Malecki <malecki-AT-algonet.se>
Subject: M-G: WARNING! Swedish "education lift" bluff?


WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING

This is an open letter to the tens and hundreds of thousands of poor and
working class people in Sweden. And especiall women who appear to becoming
victims of a big "reform" bluff!

Recently the government in the form of "New" Social Democracy and its
bougeois closet coalition friends in the Center Party have put forth a new
"reform" called "The education lift" (Kunskspslyftet) for the hundreds of
thousands of unemployrd in Sweden.

The program claimed that all those between the ages of 25 and 55 would able
to return to school and be fiananced at the same levels as their
unemployment pay. For example if you recieved 50,80 or 100% unemploymentr
bebefits after being layed off or fired you would recieve the same amount
of money if now in the fall you begin to study in the fall full time.

But it appears that this new reform is in fact a big bluff for many
unemployed! In fact what appears to be going on is that unemployment
benefits that you have the right too are being replaced with a financial
scheme where another authority CSN responsible for loans and stipendiums is
taking over the entire operation.

Meaning concretely that unemployment insurance you have a right too is
being replaced with a part loan (which you have too pay back with
interests) being the biggest part and part subvention which does not have
to be paid back. The total sum of this new system comes up to the level of
unemployment insurance that and individual has!

So instead of a "reform" to give meaningfiul education to unemployed people
in Sweden for unemployment insurance that one recieves already from the
trade union. A new system which replaces this unemployment with a loan and
subvention part and the best of all. Now if you bite on this offer one gets
to borrow money you already have the RIGHT too in unemployment compensation
and if in the future pay back the loan of the money you had the right too
in the first place.

Now at a meeting today I raised a big noise saying that this was a big wrip
off of unemployed people!

So a sharp warning to the hundreds of thousands of unemployed in Sweden who
have unemployment insurance. It appears that the government and its
bpougeois partners are turning unemployment insurance into a LOAN which you
have to pay back if you choose to study!

The claim that unemployed could study for their unemployment benefits
appears to be a big lie..

Hopefully unemployed people in Sweden with unemployment benefits from the
unions do not get sucked into a system which takes your unemployment
insurance from you and turns it into a loan which you have to pay back to
the state.

Warm Regards
Bob Malecki

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