The “Kroon” is a report from the financial director with an explicit warning with regard to minimal safety – does Vienna not even have any money for social assistance anymore? The opposition increases the alarm, the city wants to calm down.
A large Syrian family with eleven children receives 9,000 euros in minimal security and family supplement month after month. This case caused excitement this week in the city. In the meantime, Vienna spends more than a billion euros per year in social assistance. And many wonder: how long can a metropolis with a bracket budget situation still afford?
“Removability cannot be displayed otherwise”
There is a report signed by the financial director Christoph Maschek (who is currently interim -finance city council). It is dated on November 8 and receives the quote that is marked below. In summary: the Mon 5 points out that it either required reductions in the Peter Hacker (Spö) department, or changes in the framework conditions for minimal security, because otherwise the “financial financing is not presentable”.
Federal legal requirements
Given the report, the Viennese ÖVP increases the alarm: “These are now the last alarm bells to resolve the problems with Viennese minimum safety. The city of Vienna must finally adhere to the federal legal requirements,” explains the new ÖVP-Wien boss Markus Figl.
Does the city no longer have any money for social aid in 2026? Vienna does not want to share this finding and sees the wrong interpretation of the statement. “The federal budget and the 9 country budgets are under financial pressure. This has been known for many months. The fact that all public levels – including Vienna – have to save is completely excluded,” says Peter Hacker’s Office. “The information from the financial director is an explicit expression of these consolidation needs and in fact means that the business groups have to do with the money available to them. No more, but no less.”
Expenditure is a matter of negotiation
How many Vienna will actually spend in 2026 for minimal security is also a matter of negotiation and is by no means clear. However, the budgeted figures for this year are known: here the costs are 1,228 billion euros.
Next week Rot-Pink II will present its government agreement, the negotiations will be largely completed. According to reports, Spö State party secretary Barbara Novak will take over the powerful financial department and then ensure the most important subject of the coming years in the coming legislative period: to get Viennese costs under control.
Source: Krone
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