The city will help people in need. Support is slow, the opposition claims
The first of the approvals partially sends 266 crowns to kindergartens and elementary schools, which will be able to waive kindergarten fees, fees for meals, social groups, clubs or school stays and courses for parents with lower incomes.
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“September is a difficult month for all families who pay everything for at least a quarter of a year. This targeted assistance is intended for all those who have less than two hundred crowns per day per person. People in this situation should not be afraid to ask school directors for help and they will divert it,” appealed the leader of the Prague movement Jan Čižinský to himself, according to whom specific help is ready and very easily obtainable.
Čižínský’s party colleague and deputy mayor of the budget, Pavel Vyhnánek, then added that one household can save up to 50,000 crowns per school year in this way.
The Prague ODS described this support for the “needy” in times of economic crisis as insufficient and neglecting essential groups of the population – seniors, disabled pensioners, high school students aged 15 to 19 and single parents from single-parent families. At Thursday’s council meeting, the Prague councilors therefore voted to amend the originally proposed aid.
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“I am very happy that I am helping the people of Prague and extending it to other groups of Prague residents. You will also reach the elderly, disabled and single parents. Thanks to the fact that other representatives joined us, we also succeeded in promoting the support of sports activities for children and youth, which is another very important topic that the ANO movement has been providing for a long time,” says Ondřej Prokop, chairman of the club of representatives of the ANO movement.
According to representative and mayor of Prague 2 Alexandra Udženija (ODS), help is coming late. “Help for the elderly is to come through the Solidarity Fund, which will start on January 1, 2023. So I wonder what the elderly will do if they already have a problem. What will they do until January? I am in favor of setting up a system that would pay assistance to seniors on the poverty line immediately,” she said during her speech.
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Pavel Vyhnánek reminds that the original aid package was voted in the form of an intention by the entire June assembly, including the opposition. According to Vyhnánek, implementation itself was not possible before the election meeting, which is the first after the holiday break and the last in this period.
According to the Prague ODS, however, there is nothing to wait for. “The leadership of Prague had three months to prepare targeted help for the needy and already at its start forgot about those groups that it read out in its explanatory report,” stated the right-wing party in a press release.