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Supervisor warns: Government proposal on money for pensioners could lead to rising prices | Politics | DR An economic helping hand to the Danes who suffer the most from the rising prices must be financed with care, emphasizes the supervisor. a lump sum of 5,000 tax-free kroner to the old-age pensioners who receive old-age checks. The money will be raised by increasing the public sector in 2022, where you do not take the money from a certain pool, but instead borrow it. But precisely the lack of concrete financing risks pushing further to those who with their proposals want to spare the most disadvantaged Danes. This is the warning from financial supervisor Carl-Johan Dalgaard. - What can be the challenge is that the state's side spends money unfunded, so you actually do it by keeping your hand under demand, and thus you keep this here, says Carl-Johan Dalgaard, referring to the rising prices. - It can help aggravate the inflation problem or do it a little bit longer lasting. And since everyone in society feels the consequences of the price increases, it is something that affects a wide range. There are four economic sages. The title is obtained by being chairman of the Economic Council, whose task is, among other things, to provide independent advice to the country's economic and environmental economic decision-makers. Source: The Economic Councils. that it is still necessary to pursue a responsible economic policy. And she believes that because we in Denmark have a robust, which has done well through the covid-19 pandemic, then it can be well defended to finance the lump sums with an i. Because we are in a situation, it is also financially responsible to have a deficit financing of some efforts, she said. The same was the message from Finance Minister Nicolai Wammen (S) when he started the negotiations today. In addition, he stressed that it is important not to push "unnecessarily" .- Our starting point is that we do not do it unnecessarily. Of course, you always have one when you send money out into the community, but we believe we can do it in a balanced way, he said on the way to the negotiations. But Carl-Johan Dalgaard maintains his concern. - It is only the financing , there is the problem and that you report that you are not trying to finance the exercises, he says.- What is my job is to point out that if you do not finance these things, then you run a risk , and it is a political choice whether you want to live with it, he adds. According to the supervisor, the reason for the increase is that at the moment there is more demand than is offered. In the video below, you can hear more about why prices are rising and what inflation really is. on demand, which can do better, says Carl-Johan Dalgaard Radicals share the supervisor's concern. - We have become more and more skeptical as the days go by about spending borrowed money in this way. Because it actually risks making the problem bigger, as several economists also say, says the party's finance spokesman, Andreas Steenberg. But the concern does not spread significantly to SF. says SF's chairman, Pia Olsen Dyhr, on the way out of the initial negotiations in. Pia Olsen Dyhr is also willing to look at whether to tax some of those who are richest.- But right now we have to talk about taking a loan that we made under the corona, she says. In the Unity List, there is not quite the same enthusiasm that lump sums for hard-of-need Danes should be financed by an increase. - We also think it makes sense to look at finding the money elsewhere. than just opening the money boxes, so not just rising, and the whole thing is of no use to anyone in the world, says the Unity List's political spokesperson, Mai Villadsen. but negotiations with several of the blue parties.