Tag: Welfare state
For the first time more than 2.5 million people without professional qualifications
Apprenticeship at Volkswagen The number of people without professional training has been increasing for years. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The shortage of skilled workers and workers in Germany is becoming ever…
Mediation committee agrees on citizens’ income – fast adoption expected
Mediation committee advises on citizens’ income With the citizen money, the standard rates in the basic security are increased. The coalition is also expanding the additional earnings limits. (Photo: dpa)…
Traffic lights and countries continue to argue about citizen income – there is also criticism of the housing benefit reform
Federal states with Union participation, without whose consent the citizen’s income cannot come into force, declared that the proposed amendments did not change the grossest “weaving errors” of the law.…
For households with minimum wage, work would pay less
Citizens’ allowance instead of Hartz IV Citizens’ income is to replace the previous Hartz IV system at the turn of the year. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The planned introduction of citizen…
For many households, work would hardly be worthwhile
Waiting area in the job center Citizens’ income is to replace the previous Hartz IV system at the turn of the year. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The planned introduction of citizen…
This authority calls plans “counterproductive and risky”
Job center in Saxony-Anhalt The intermediaries should give benefit recipients more freedom in the future. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The Federal Court of Auditors has sharply criticized the planned citizens’ allowance.…
The welfare state cannot help everyone
Berlin It should be powerful, “precise” and “tailor-made”. In the run-up to the third relief package, the coalition is making big promises. Unlike the second package, this time everyone should…
Questions and answers on the Hartz IV successor
money as basic security The standard rates for the new citizens’ income should be higher than for Hartz IV. (Photo: imago images/MiS) Berlin As early as next year, the federal…
What the new verdicts mean
Girls in front of a refugee shelter The German law, which has since been changed, set too strict standards for the child benefit entitlement of refugees. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The…
What the new verdicts mean
Girls in front of a refugee shelter The German law, which has since been changed, set too strict standards for the child benefit entitlement of refugees. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The…
Hartz IV benefits become an almost unconditional basic income
Dusseldorf The social market economy has been the foundation of overall economic development in the Federal Republic over the past seven decades. The core of every market economy are the…
Basic income as creative capital instead of handouts
basic income Two authors want to bring order to the debate about basic income. (Photo: Imago) As long as debates are conducted as a cut-throat competition between fundamental ideological concepts,…
How lifetime income depends on household type
wedding couple According to the Bertelsmann Foundation, many of the family-related benefits are still geared towards marital relationships. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The disposable lifetime income in Germany still depends heavily…
40 percent mark should fall soon
Berlin Even if the coalition agreement between the SPD, the Greens and the FDP contains a lot of positive things for the craft, Hans Peter Wollseifer sees a crucial void:…
40 percent mark should fall soon
Berlin Even if the coalition agreement between the SPD, the Greens and the FDP contains a lot of positive things for the craft, Hans Peter Wollseifer sees a crucial void:…
40 percent mark should fall soon
Berlin Even if the coalition agreement between the SPD, the Greens and the FDP contains a lot of positive things for the craft, Hans Peter Wollseifer sees a crucial void:…
Politicians must put an end to the support of their citizens
Headlights, accelerator pedal depressed: for many years the German economy was in the fast lane. Today, however, the leisurely convoy ride dominates. When determining the current position, the emphasis is…
Without reforms, there is a risk of an increase to 45 percent
Berlin There is a risk of a sharp rise in social security contributions in the coming election period if the future federal government does not take countermeasures. With the economic…
Without reforms, there is a risk of an increase to 45 percent
Berlin There is a risk of a sharp rise in social security contributions in the coming election period if the future federal government does not take countermeasures. With the economic…
Without reforms, there is a risk of an increase to 45 percent
Berlin There is a risk of a sharp rise in social security contributions in the coming election period if the future federal government does not take countermeasures. With the economic…