Activation Policies and the Protection of Individual Rights: A Critical Assessment of the Situation in Denmark, Finland and Sweden by Paul Van Aerschot

Author:Paul Van Aerschot [Aerschot, Paul Van]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Public Policy, Public, Social Services & Welfare, Political Science, Law
ISBN: 9781317185659
Google: Ie6_CwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 29642126
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

4.2 The Evolution of Activation Policies Targeting Recipients of Social Assistance

The municipal social authorities have had the ability to activate recipients of social assistance since 1977.14 Activation was originally intended to reduce youth unemployment. Compulsory activation of social assistance recipients can be dated back to 1990, when 18–19-year-old clients were given the right and put under an obligation to participate in activation measures after having received social assistance for two weeks. In the following two years this programme was extended first to the 18–20 age group and then to those aged 18–24.15 In practice many municipalities also provided activation programmes for recipients aged 25 and over, part of them even when the beneficiaries had major problems other than unemployment, for example mental or addiction problems. This line of action was incorporated in the 1993 Municipal Activation Act.16 This Act was replaced in 1997 by the Active Social Policy Act (“Lov om aktiv socialpolitik”). The 1997 Act was later amended many times and in 2003 complemented by the Active Employment Contribution Act,17 which also applies to claimants of unemployment benefits.

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