Poverty & cost of living
This area covers household income and spending, poverty, social assistance and consumer prices.
Sub-problems
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Headline indicator: Social assistance rate (% of the resident population)
2.9% (2025)
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Headline indicator: Persons with supplementary benefits on 31 December
361,209 (2025)
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Headline indicator: Old-age ratio: people aged 65+ per 100 people aged 20 to 64
32.9 (2025)
Sources: OFS/BFS — Recipients and rate of economic social assistance (data 2005–2025, source checked on ); BSV/OFAS/UFAS (via OFS/BFS) — Persons with supplementary benefits (EL/PC) to the AHV and IV (data 1999–2025, source checked on ); OFS/BFS — Permanent resident population by age group and nationality category (data 2010–2025, source checked on )
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Related federal votes
Selection: votes that Swissvotes assigns to this topic's policy area (Swissvotes codebook), and votes linked by Votara editors.
No federal vote is linked to this topic yet.
Source: Année politique suisse, University of Bern — Swissvotes – database of federal popular votes (data 1848–2027, source checked on ) Checks failing
Citizen urgency and parliament attention
- Parliamentary business
- 2.8% of 8,496 business items
- Agora daily votes
- fewer than 50 votes Opinion of Votara users, not a representative poll
Curia Vista subjects counted for this area: Sozialer Schutz.
455 items carry at least one of these subjects; an item that also belongs to other areas is split between them.
Votara calculation. The Parliamentary Services tag every business item with one or more subjects; Votara assigns each subject to at most one area. An item that touches several areas is split equally between them.
Agora votes are not representative of the population.
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Sources: Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly — Business submitted by members of parliament (Curia Vista) (source checked on ) Checks failing; Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly — Business types and statuses (Curia Vista) (source checked on ); Votara — Votara calculation – share of parliamentary business per problem area (Curia Vista subject tags mapped)
Source of the Federal Assembly data: Parlamentsdienste der Bundesversammlung, Bern. Downloaded on Business submitted by members of parliament (Curia Vista): 10 November 2026; Business types and statuses (Curia Vista): 1 November 2026. Prepared by Votara; this is not an official publication. Terms of use of the data