To Prague without five thousand? There is a plan to “demotivate” Ukrainians • RESPECT
The uneven distribution of Ukrainian refugees across the regions could be resolved in the future by a change in entitlement to financial assistance. One option is that families heading to Prague and other congested areas would lose their entitlement to a 5,000-strong benefit – if they had previously been offered to settle elsewhere, where school and housing would be available, but because of the desire to live elsewhere, it would have. refused.
The governors will discuss the adjustments that would act as an incentive for the self-redistribution of refugees according to available school and accommodation capacities with the Ministry of the Interior later this week. The first meeting took place on Tuesday, but was not completed and was postponed to Thursday.
“The social benefit was to contain a motivational as well as a demotivating component,” the Central Bohemian governor Petra Pecková (STAN) told Respekt about the proposed ideas. “So if someone gets a location in a specific location with the possibility of housing, school, kindergarten and work and would like to go elsewhere, such as Prague, they should not be entitled to further state assistance,” adds the governor.
Apart from Prague, Brno and Pilsen, its region is one of the most common destinations for people fleeing the war. That is why Central Bohemia, together with others, is pushing for the adjustment of today’s free regime, where the entitlement to benefits is the same everywhere and everyone is free to decide where to anchor. Ukrainians cannot be prevented from moving freely in the future either, so a softer form of regulation is being sought.
He talked about “demotivators” in Tuesday’s Czech Television program Events, comments also the mayor of Prague Zdeněk Hřib, who had previously threatened to close the Prague aid center for Ukraine if the government does not begin to address how to regulate the influx of Ukrainians into the capital. Prime Minister Petr Fiala and Interior Minister Vít Rakušan also spoke this week about the desirability of devising a “motivational” system so that runners have reason to give preference to freer regions.
Efforts to make adjustments have intensified in connection with the difficult to manage a large number of refugees at the Central Station in Prague, but also with the need to prepare schools for the holidays for the new school year, when families run out of 90 days, but many are not in class. .