The new budget has many losers. According to the Ministry of Finance, savings restrictions are great. However: federal institutions such as the Spanish driving school can use the financing pots in the future, while recipients of social well -being are hard savings.
The abolition of the educational bonus is one of the less noted measures in the savings package. So far, this has been distributed among social assistance retailers who participate in longer training measures from the AMS. The support that was only introduced in 2024 is now removed without replacement, it stems from the accompanying accompanying law.
In addition to the existing AMS allowance of approximately 2.60 euros per day, the affected training allowance of 150 and 300 euros per month received in addition to recipients of unemployment benefits and emergency aid if they participate in longer training and further teaching measures of the labor market service.
Due to the complexity in implementation, dual tracks for organizational tracks on the interface for the AMS have been made, the removal is justified. There is also no determination that the AMS training surcharge should not be counted for social assistance.
The winners of the new budget
Until now, it has also been more in the background that individual facilities will probably enjoy budgeting, for example the Austria statistics. According to the draft law, the annual fixed rate must be increased by 13 million to 69.4 million from the coming year.
The annual basic compensation is increased from 2.5 to 4.5 million in the Spanish driving school. According to a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Agriculture, the increase is justified with “unexpected investments”. The Riding School and the Lipizzaner Stud in Piber were converted into a company of public law in 2001. This is fully owned by the federal government.
The support can be seen as a “considerable dedication to maintain and further develop a unique cultural active in the world rank,” says the driving school.
More leeway is also created for the communities. They must have access to the remaining funds of the municipal investment laws of 2020, 2023 and 2025 without mandatory CO financing. For this purpose, the previous purposes will be converted into financial allocations. The municipalities can also decide for themselves which investments they use the funds.
Promotion for “Wiener Zeitung” has been seriously shortened
The government, on the other hand, has very bad news for the “Wiener Zeitung”, of which the basic financing is currently being compiled by almost half. The online medium will receive five million euros less in subsidies this year and next year. Of these, 2.5 million are not available on the “Media Hub Austria”, which is responsible for the training of journalists.
There are also limitations for the ORF. The special payment of ten million awarded since 2024 will be removed for the maintenance of the Radio Symphony Orchestra and the satellite transmission of the Sport+ Save broadcaster. As compensation, the ORF sets the dedication reserve in a state of the ORF allowance from 2027 to 2029, up to an annual maximum amount of 35 million.
However, the condition for this is that Sport+ is still distributed via satellite, the information and culturally saving ORF III is fully stored and the Radio Symphony Orchestra has not been resolved.
Source: Krone
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