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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check Out My HomePage where you can, Read the book! Ha Ha Ha McNamara, Vietnam-My Bellybutton is my Crystalball! Or Get The Latest Issue of, COCKROACH, a zine for poor and working-class people and now starting the "Never Ending Story"... http://www.algonet.se/~malecki Back issues of Cockroach and my book at http://www.kmf.org/malecki/ -------------------------------------------------------- --- from list marxism-general-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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