1. Minimum income in Belgium
Coverage and non-take-up

2. The Belgium Minimum Income
=> Social rights based approach
1974 Every person has the right to social services. This aims to provide citizens with the opportunity to live a life that responds to human dignity. Local social public centers have the task to ensure this services.

3. Minimum income : Conditions and eligibility
Residence in Belgium
Minimum 18 years of age
Income lower than the minimum income amount
Prepared to work
Social inquiry
Take up of other social rights
Individualised project for social integration

4. State of play of non-take-up
Scientific
Traps and springboards in European minimum income systems – the Belgian case
2007 – Examination of under protection
2011 – A first computation of non-take up behavior
2014 – Social Fraud
Experience – participation - campaigns
General report on poverty – 1994
Experts by experience
In Belgium, non-take-up of the guaranteed income is estimated at 57% to 76% and
over-take-up at between 5% and 24% (Bouckaert and Schokkaert, 2011; PwC, 2013).

5. Reasons for non-take-up
Ignorance
Negative experiences
Stigmatisation
Complexity of procedures and formalities
Ever changing regulations
Organisation of the institutions (opening hours, online applications, …)
Conditions and contracts

6. Actions and suggestions
At the level of the institution
- Information, video’s, action
Manuals for local
Typology, checklist, …
Outreach activities
Implication of volunteers or users

7. Actions and suggestions
At central level :
- Automation of social rights and derived social rights
Political priority in the governmental declaration
Crossroadbank for Social Security
Only Once legislation