By Plenary Sessions: Signe Riisalo

We support increasing social expenditures to prevent individuals from falling below the absolute poverty line, emphasizing the importance of continuously raising the subsistence minimum and allocating resources for this purpose within the state budget strategy. We also advocate for enhancing the economic security of vulnerable groups, such as continuing contributions to the Second Pillar for people with reduced working capacity and raising the threshold for protected savings.

Economic viewpoints stress fiscal responsibility and resource targeting, preferring more affordable solutions (such as indexation, which would cost 10 million) to costly, one-off increases (50–55 million). Poverty alleviation is supported through targeted assistance for vulnerable groups, ensuring the efficient use of scarce resources.

The speaker accepts the reality of implementing the car tax but emphasizes the need to find targeted economic relief for people with disabilities. The focus is on solving practical, essential problems, such as the rising cost of assistive devices, rather than merely raising general benefits.

Economic positions concern the efficiency and funding of social benefits; support is given to making technical improvements to prevent the improper reduction of the work ability benefit for individuals with reduced capacity for work. The proposal by the Association of Primary Healthcare Centers to fund end-of-life declaration counseling as a separate service by the Health Insurance Fund is mentioned.

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The economic viewpoints are indirect, emphasizing the maximum preparation of young people with special needs for the labor market through social investment. This points to supporting human capital development and increasing labor force participation.

Supports targeted state funding and fiscal accountability, directing freed resources towards children's services where the need is greatest. Views unemployment insurance primarily as a measure for reintegration into the labor market, rather than as an income provision for those who have chosen not to work. Advocates for the involvement of the private sector in the social sphere, citing, for example, a 50% stake in general welfare services.

Economic views are focused on improving social protection and labor force activity, while simultaneously emphasizing adherence to the budgetary framework and avoiding increases in unemployment insurance contributions. The speaker supports redistribution to aid vulnerable groups, but stresses the necessity of motivating working-age individuals (especially young people) to return to the labor market by abolishing passive unemployment support. He/She acknowledges the need to review the methodology for calculating the subsistence minimum.

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