DAGPENGE (2)

As recently as August, the only official figure on the number of people falling out of the dagpenge system was 34,000, a drastic rise on the prognosis of 2-4,000 published when the reform of the dagpenge system took place in 2010.

However, the latest data show that that number is already out of date. The most up-to-date figure from the end of May 2014 is 41,028.

Dagpenge is the third rail of Danish politics and is going to cost Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt her job.

Walter Blotscher