Poverty expert Wim Van Lancker (KU Leuven) emphasizes that child benefit is “the most important instrument in the fight against child poverty”. “If you shift that budget to childcare or education, you threaten to increase child poverty, since one has a real impact on the other,” it sounds. With this, Van Lancker responds to Vooruit’s proposal to offer children 130 days of free childcare. That money must come from, among other things, a reform of the child benefit (Growth Package).
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“Ahead proposal threatens to increase child poverty”
