What happens to the 100,000 unemployed who lose their benefits on January 1? Labor expert Stijn Baert explains

In Belgium you will no longer be ‘eternal unemployed’ in the future. ‘A historical reform’, Prime Minister Bart De Wever (N-VA) calls it. But what will happen to those 100,000 compatriots who lose their benefits on January 1? And will it ensure that more Belgians get started? “Some don’t work and don’t want to work,” says HLN labor expert Stijn Baert.

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