In 2014, Eurodiaconia carried out research among its membership to see if and how members work on the issue of minimum income and minimum wage. This mapping report reveals that a number of members carry out advocacy campaigns on these issues and provide social and financial services to support (potential) beneficiaries of minimum income schemes. The report also presents members’ positions on their current national minimum income schemes and minimum wage.
The report aims to provide background information that scopes the way forward for Eurodiaconia’s EU level work on this issue; it also provides interested members with a collection of projects in order to provide some illustrations of how to work on the issue. A position paper on adequate minimum income will be adopted by Eurodiaconia later in 2015 as a follow up to this piece of work.
Download the report here. We warmly encourage member organisations working on the issue of minimum income to contact their respective national representatives within the Social Protection Committee and to share the experiences and recommendations summarised in this report. A full list of SPC members can be found here.