Citizens’ allowance increase “would certainly not be particularly well received”. In 2023, 341,200 people in the primary labor market slipped into the citizen's benefit market.

The head of the Federal Employment Agency, Andrea Nahles, also appeared "to be honest, irritated" in an interview with the Editorial Network Germany (RND) GDL rail strike: Six-day rail strike by the GDL, but Weselsky is already threatening a new record reading “Citizen’s money” can be read.