Social welfare Inconsistent practice in rent guidelines between municipalities

According to the association Öffentlichkeitsgesetz.ch, many of the 552 municipalities in five cantons in northern Switzerland have not adjusted their rent guidelines for social welfare recipients for years. The upper limits set vary greatly.

For example, the rent limits for a family of four ranged from 935 to 2250 francs excluding ancillary costs between the municipalities surveyed, as Öffentlichtkeitsgesetz.ch reported on Saturday. In collaboration with the Reflekt research team, the association had requested data on the rental costs of social welfare recipients from all municipalities in the cantons of Zurich, Aargau, Solothurn, Basel-Landschaft and Basel-Stadt. The analysis of the data was published on the website www.mietlimite.ch.

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