By 88 votes to 56: Bern cantonal parliament against increase in family benefits

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The fact that families needed to be supported remained undisputed in the council. However, the center-right majority believed that an across-the-board increase in benefits would be ineffective. Because then families that are not dependent on it also benefit from it.

Families should be supported based on their needs, not by casters, says Tamara Jost-Morandi (GLP/Herzogenbuchsee). In addition, employers and self-employed people would have to bear 154 million francs in additional costs, according to Pauline Pauli (FDP/Nidau). That’s too much.

The EPP and the left of the Council remained in the minority. They claimed that many families were suffering from the burden of premiums and the ever-rising costs of food, petrol, heating oil and electricity. One should not wait until the federal government adjusts the minimum level of emission allowances to inflation, probably in 2025. Other cantons are more generous.

Since 2009, family benefits in the canton of Bern have amounted to 115 percent of the federal minimum amount. The motions wanted to go one step further and increase the Berne child benefit from 230 to at least 300 francs per child per month. They wanted to increase the training allowance from 290 to 350 francs. (SDA)

Source:Blick