From Dependency to Self Sufficiency

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From Dependency to Self Sufficiency
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Content

• The need for Reform
• Required solution
• Goals and Objectives
• Action taken by the government
• Principles to be implemented
• Vision
• Conclusion

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The Need for Reform

• Labor force participation 54 vs. 69 in OECD.
• Increasing Unemployment Rate 10.7
• Increase in foreign workers 11 of labor
  market.
• Social expenditure has gone up from 32 to 57
  from 1985 2000.
• Welfare payments to working age individuals
  equals 6.7 of GDP in 2001 Vs. 2.9 in OECD.
• During the 90s the percent increase in the
  number of income assurance recipients was 11
  times greater than that of the general
  population.
• 160,000 income assurance recipients.
• 300,000 foreign workers (100,000 legal).
• 300,000 unemployed.
• Social and educational aspects.

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The Needed Solution

• Practical comprehensive and effective solution
  for reintegrating of welfare recipients into the
  work force.
• Solution must more efficiently allocate current
  resources.
• Solution must work with the market trends and by
  its rules.

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The Objective

• Reduction of dependency in long-term benefits
  while developing the work force

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Goals

• To Reduce the dependency of welfare recipients
• To Develop employment opportunities and encourage
  entrepreneurship
• Pooling of resources and focusing government and
  other services
• Regional and communal development
• Employment mobility
• Reduction of welfare expenditure

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Actions Taken
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Vision

• Establishment of nationwide one stop Job Centers
  platform
• The centers will operate in defined regions for
  the integration of welfare recipients into the
  labor force and prevention of recidivism, while
  developing regional employment

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Methodology - Job Centers Guidelines

• Work as a prime value
• Time, effort and ability for state support
• Unifications of resources in one service point
• Flexible and versatile solutions
• Transferring resources from monetary benefit to
  work support services
• Working with the community
• Unification of resources

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Conclusion

• Increasing the work force participation rate by
  allocating resources from benefits to work
  support services.
• A pilot in transferring government activity to
  non-government entities.
• Maximizing financial and social incentives for
  job retention.
• Efficiently utilizing community and other
  regional resources.
• Prevention of hereditary dependency