Government parties CD&V and Vooruit want to discuss exceptions, while N-VA is adhering to the rule for anyone who receives unemployment benefits. But the party does reassure: for the current students, it should not have to worry about new regulations.
“They went in with the approval that they were allowed to combine that, so we will absolutely respect that. But we will not finance any four years training by combining them with the unemployment benefit,” explains Ronse.
N-VA wants to work out a different financing model for the longer training for bottleneck profession, in which the future employer plays a financial role. After two years of training, they could already pay a wage to those students. That must then absorb the loss of unemployment benefits. “An employer could do that perfectly. Then the student will receive a wage, but they do an internship at that employer in exchange and they will also get to work there afterwards.”