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Outrage in Vienna over an immigrant family receiving €9,000 a month in social benefits.

A Syrian family in Vienna (Austria) with 11 children has sparked public debate for receiving €9,000 a month, in addition to other housing and education benefits.

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A Syrian family living in Vienna, A family of two adults and eleven children receives €9,000 in public assistance per month., according to Remix News citing data from the Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung. These benefits include €6,000 in basic allowances and €3,000 in family subsidies, as well as other benefits such as housing assistance.

This case has generated a wave of indignation in Austria, especially among the centre-right and right-wing parties, which They consider that these amounts are disproportionate and unfair to Austrian taxpayers.. The party in power in Austria (the ÖVP), which makes it possible, has also expressed outrage. To many critics, these are empty words, since the ÖVP has been governing the country for decades.

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Peter Hacker, Vienna's Social Welfare Councillor and member of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ), has described this case as an «anomaly». The member of this pro-immigration party has emphasised that 58.11% of families receiving basic assistance have only one or two children. However, it has acknowledged that the city supports three families with eleven children and six with ten children.

The right-wing Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has been particularly critical: it considers this case as a «slap in the face» for Austrians who work and contribute to the system. The leader of the Vienna FPÖ, Dominik Nepp, said that the Vienna SPÖ party, which runs the city,«He would continue throwing banknotes at social welfare claimants for doing nothing.«.

Foreigners in Austria are leaders in social fraud.

The news breaks at a time when official statistics reveal a worrying fact: Since 2018, 72.1 per cent of the cases of social welfare fraud detected in Austria have been committed by foreign nationals.. This figure has fuelled the public perception that the welfare system may be being exploited.

The Austrian government has announced that it is studying how to correct this situation. However, legal options and political will are limited.

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