Wednesday, 27 September 2017

Protests by disabled Israelis set to intensify after allowance talks hit roadblock


A assembly of organizations representing a infirm with a control of a National Economic Council, Prof. Avi Simhon, did not outcome in any agreement on lifting a monthly incapacity allowance.


According to sources benefaction during a meeting, Simhon was not prepared to control any negotiations on augmenting a bill for a lift due by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that is now 1.5 billion shekels ($423.7 million) for 2018. Under a proposal, a stipend of 50,000 infirm people would be lifted to 4,000 shekels ($1,128), while many others would sojourn with their stream allowance.


The organizations intent to any offer that doesn’t embody a lift in a allowances of all a infirm in a entrance year. Because a assembly yielded no results, a organizations are approaching to feature their protests in a entrance days by restraint some-more roads. Because of a fatal conflict Tuesday in Har Adar, a organizations did not theatre highway blockages during a past dual days. There were, however, tickets released to infirm persons who conducted an ad-hoc blockage of Route 1 on Tuesday.


Disabled protesters retard a Ayalon highway on Sep 24, 2017. Moti Milrod

The Necheh Lo Hatzi Ben Adam classification told Simhon it would not accept a differential boost that would leave some 100,000 infirm people with no boost during all. The classification demanded approach negotiations with a primary apportion and a financial and amicable affairs ministers to mislay a restrictions imposed by a Laron Law on how most a infirm authority can acquire and still get an allowance.


Alex Friedman, a initiator of a infirm criticism and authority of Necheh Lo Hatzi Ben Adam said, “The criticism that we started two-and-a-half years ago was meant to scold an injustice, not to emanate another one. we design a primary apportion to respond to a demands, that are fit and moral. we wish we are tighten to solution a trouble of a disabled.”



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On Thursday a heads of a organizations will accommodate with Histadrut authority Avi Nissenkorn, a heads of a vast labor unions and a secretary of a Teachers Union to make a situational comment and devise a join onslaught to lift a allowances.


The incapacity allowance, that was 2,239 shekels in 2000, has risen usually slightly, to 2,342 shekels, in 17 years. Israel has 880,000 infirm people, 50,000 of them in wheelchairs. Some 24,000 are legally blind and 15,000 are deaf. Some 190,000 people accept a top probable incapacity stipend of 2,342 shekels.


The state starts shortening a stipend if a infirm authority earns some-more than 2,750 shekels a month, and cancels it totally if his income reaches 7,000 shekels a month. The rate of practice for a infirm in Israel is usually 21 percent, compared to 34 percent among OECD countries, and 70 percent of infirm workers leave their jobs within a year.


Netanyahu’s offer would start slicing a stipend when a infirm person’s income reaches 4,200 shekels. The Zelicha Committee that researched a emanate suggest a cuts start when a income reaches 5,300 shekels.


Article source: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Danon-welcomes-selection-of-former-Portugal-PM-as-new-UN-chief-469470


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