From 2025, basic child welfare is intended to give children from financially weak families better opportunities and combat child poverty. But the law is controversial.
The Greens and the FDP are publicly arguing about the fundamental feasibility of the social law. The current conflict revolves primarily around a calculation from the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, according to which around 5,000 new jobs would have to be created nationwide in order to convert family policy benefits. Basic child security is to be regulated centrally via the “Family Service of the Federal Employment Agency’s” Family Minister Lisa Paus (Greens) has repeatedly emphasized that this change is necessary to reduce bureaucracy in the long term.. According to current plans, will replace current family welfare benefits as early as 2025. The most important issue so far is financing, which was stated to be in the double-digit billion sum at the beginning of planning and is now expected to be significantly lower. The plan is for those entitled to the new system to automatically receive the basic child benefit instead of an application as before.