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Brussels families living in a property whose total cadastral income is more than €2,000 will no longer be eligible to receive top-ups to their child benefit payments, it has been announced.
From 1 January 2023, paternity leave for self-employed fathers in Belgium will be extended to 20 days (or 40 half days), RTBF reports.
Flanders will be implementing mandatory community service for the long-term unemployed beginning in 2023, in what the government says is an effort to help jobseekers “retain social skills”.
Cutting off water supplies to domestic users in the Brussels region who are behind with their payment will be prohibited next year as a result of new ordinances from the Brussels parliament’
Self-employed workers in Belgium will soon be granted paid bereavement leave in the event of the death of a family member – as is already the case for employees and civil servants.
A bill to extend paid bereavement leave from three days to 10 has been unanimously approved by Belgium’s federal parliament.
As a result of the health crisis, complaints about government services, specifically related to unemployment, have exploded, the office of the federal ombudsman said a press release Wednesday.
The Belgian federal government aims to help those struggling to pay their energy bills during the coronavirus crisis.
The Brussels government approved on Thursday a draft decree aimed at increasing the amount of "independent premium" funding for jobseekers looking to start their own business.
