Finance Minister Simcha Ehrlich today urged Dr. Israel Katz, Minister of Social Betterment and Labor, to postpone the introduction of a minimum income bill. In a letter to Katz and to Deputy Premier Yigael Yadin, chairman of the Ministerial Social Betterment Committee, Ehrlich wrote that the bill would mean that some 250,000 families would enjoy financial support from the State, and many would prefer not to work at all.
Katz and Yadin are both members of the Democratic Movement for Change while Ehrlich is the leading member of the Liberal Party wing of Likud in the Cabinet.
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