What sounds like an April joke – do not decide for yourself, when you eat, what you can leave, whether you can leave the house, whether you go to work, meet someone in your free time, when you take a shower or when you go to sleep – still bitter reality for people with disabilities. Many people with disabilities have to live in homes or are dependent on their families. The way out: personal assistance! In this form of support, people with disabilities choose who supports them when, how and where. Although the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabilities fixes this form of support, it is not sufficiently financed in Vienna.
Marlene K., 19, student and lives with a physical disability. In addition to studying, she has two jobs and her own apartment in Vienna. But the assistant budget approved by the state of Vienna only covers part of their actual needs – the rest must manage the family. “”While my fellow colleagues can live their lives freely, I am made a dependent child again. I can’t spontaneously go out with friends, pursue hobbies, not become independent. Rather, I have to get away from Vienna and my mother to Salzburg every month. This affects my studies and work, not to mention private life.
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Double emergency: personal assistant under pressure
Not only for people with disabilities a difficult situation, our assistants also fight with precarious working conditions. Many of them are busy with free service contracts, without continued payment on sick leave or paid vacation. The promotion of the city of Vienna is not sufficient for a correct job.
The group Good for everyone – personal assistance! consists of people who live and work and allies with personal assistance and who support our political concern. For all of us it is clear: it is due to the city of Vienna and At the federal government of finance personal assistance as required – we want to draw attention to this in the Vienna election campaign.
For Good for everyone – personal assistance! It is clear: we now need a functioning “Viennese solution”.
We call for immediate measures:
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Expand target group! Blind people, people with learning difficulties, people with mental disabilities – everyone has the right to personal assistance!
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Increase hourly rates! Fair payment for assistants now!
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Cover total needs! End with the degrading “hourly poker”!
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Abolish age limits! Self -determination does not know any expiry date!
Vigil Good for everyone-personal assistance!: April 1, 2025 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Place of Human Rights, 1070 Vienna.
The city of Vienna has to act now. People with disabilities now want to live self -determined. Personal assistance is not an April Fool’s joke.
Mahnwache: personal assistance
Datum: 01.04.2025, 11:00 a.m. – 01.04.2025, 6:00 p.m.
Art: General appointments
Ort: Place of human rights
1070 Wien
Austria
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