the Danes are quite wrong when they need to assess how many people are actually on welfare. It shows a study by Interresearch has made for the Danish business world, and 9 out of 10 danes set a too low number.
The real figure is ca. 60 percent or more than 2 million people, but every fourth dane believes that only 30 percent of the population is on welfare.
Get a clear picture
The 1277 respondents has been explained that the welfare-covers the old-age pension, early retirement pension, retirement pay, subsistence allowance and training aid SU, and, therefore, considers the director of the Danish business, that it is ‘strange, that so few have a clear picture of how big the dependency ratio actually is in Denmark’:
– When the population picture of how many are on welfare, are so unclear, it is much harder to achieve an understanding of the importance of reforms in this area, he says.
But what do you mean? Is 60 percent on public income support fine – or is it too few or too many?
