Where EU immigrants collect benefits, it is usually for minimum-income support, not contributory social-security payments such as pensions, sickness, disability or housing benefits.
It also provides price support, insurance subsidies, operating subsidies, minimum income guarantees, vacation support and unemployment insurance, bait subsidies, gear subsidies and damage compensation (Schrank, 2003).
Families working full-time on the national minimum wage now had just 83% of the minimum income needed to support their families, said CPAG.
But even within individual areas the affordability can vary significantly depending on the size of the household and the number of adults on the minimum wage or income support.
Such a program would potentially be even more attractive in Europe, given that minimum wages and income support packages are far more generous in than in the US, consequently leaving less scope to use the JG program as a means to replace a strong social welfare benefits model with some form of indentured slavery, which is something one could potentially envisage developing in the US.
Not surprisingly, overall affordability is easier for those on the minimum wage than with income support.
In that world view, unemployment insurance, minimum wages and other income support programs undermine the survivalist imperative that keeps poor inner city families in Los Angeles from moving to the central valley to do the agricultural labor work now done by migrant laborers.
A debate on the health of the poor resulted in a motion supporting minimum income standards (MIS).
The snapshot focuses on households on the minimum wage and four government income support types – the parenting payment, aged pension, Newstart and the disability support pension.
The second could be met by setting a minimum level of EU-financed income support, but letting members top it up if they chose.
