Money reclaimed

Educational leave puts mothers in existential fear

Young mothers in particular took advantage of the training allowance, which now threatens their livelihood.(Bild: Molnar Attila)

The wave of AMS reclaims for continuing education allowance could turn into a tsunami. Starting in Lower Austria, Upper Austria has now also been affected.

Young mothers throughout Austria who receive or have received training allowance as part of educational leave are now particularly worried. This is because after the Lower Austrian Public Employment Service (AMS) suddenly discovered that courses offered by the Viennese training institute Sitya - which had been checked in advance and an advance calculation of the payments made - no longer met the requirements, the women's social insurance was retroactively withdrawn. And the money paid out was reclaimed.