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Seniors Services
Former Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, normally a champion of welfare philosophy, is now demanding that those pensioners who are financially well off should pay for certain social benefits, such as the cleaning of their own homes. Housecleaning is a service normally provided free to pensioners by the state. 'I pay for cleaning help at home, so, if I can afford it, why should it be free when I get old?' said Rasmussen, addressing a Social Democratic meeting in Vejle. 'If everyone gets everything they want, then some people will obviously be left out. As Social Democrats, we have to make sure that it's the really needy who are given priority.' Nyrup Rasmussen also used the occasion to launch an attack on the Care for the Elderly (Ældre Sagen) organisation, which he dismissed as a mere lobby organisation that portrays all seniors as 'incapable, weak and infirm.'
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