In the run-up to the Tyrolean state elections, the umbrella organization for people with disabilities – Argesodit – has surveyed the parties’ programs with regard to the future establishment of disability assistance. The conclusion of the institution concerned is not surprising: politicians have apparently “forgotten” again. Only one of the Tyrolean parties is alarmed.
More than 10,000 people with disabilities and psychological limitations receive benefits from the Tiroler Gehandicaptenhulp. Argesodit employs 3500 employees to provide support. There are also numerous family members and other support networks. “So we are many,” Ludwig Plangger (Chairman), CEO Georg Willeit and General Manager Gabriela Ebner-Rangger emphasized on Monday.
“Talking about more than two mandates”
“We are talking here – if you assume a number of 8330 votes – so more than two mandates,” the trio calculated. “We often accompany our customers for decades, for a lifetime, if necessary around the clock.”
Livelihood, quality of life, rights
“It’s about livelihood, about quality of life in the truest sense of the word and about the rights of people with disabilities. Yet there is the impression that urgent and existential concerns are not taken seriously enough and, above all, are not anchored strongly enough structurally. they continue.
This is currently also apparent from the programs of the campaign groups for the state elections, which are hardly available in ‘barrier-free versions’ or in understandable language. “We therefore wrote to all parties, only one responded, namely the SPÖ – and that many and differentiated,” says Plangger.
Employees run away
Rising prices and staff shortages also have a huge impact on assistance to the disabled. “But just like with the Corona bonus and the care package, we always find out what is planned only when we ask.” There are also structural shortcomings: “People with disabilities and their care organizations are, for example, excluded from the heating costs subsidy,” they criticize. The decentralized assistance for the disabled sometimes means high travel costs for employees, “the mileage allowance has not been adjusted for 15 years”. eat up the rates, employees walk away.
Source: Krone
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