As of: February 27, 2024, 11:34 a.m
By: Teresa Toth
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Working conditions and low pay demotivate many recipients of community benefit.
A young man from Mannheim is an example of this.
Munich – It is often a challenge for recipients of citizen’s money to make ends meet financially.
Poor working conditions and disappointingly low pay reduce the motivation of many of those affected to leave welfare and work instead.
A 21-year-old man from Mannheim, who receives citizen's money, experienced a similar situation.
He quit his job after just one day.
Pascal (21) receives citizen's money and has also taken on a mini-job
The person concerned has only entered into a marginal employment relationship.
The citizen's allowance only amounts to 563 euros, which is hardly enough to cover living expenses.
Therefore, some recipients choose to take up a mini-job in addition to social assistance.
According to the website
buerger-geld.org,
you can earn up to 520 euros additionally without being threatened with deductions.
Although this seems promising at first glance, the reality is often different. 21-year-old Pascal from Mannheim had to experience this firsthand.
He appeared in the show “Hartz and warmly”, a production by RTL ZWEI.
This series highlights the everyday lives of people in socially problem areas.
New episodes are constantly being produced with changing main characters and living conditions.
Characters are portrayed who, despite being employed, are scraping by the subsistence level, but also those who receive social assistance - such as 57-year-old Pamela, who unexpectedly found 1,000 euros in her bank account.
The citizen's benefit recipient wanted to work as a newspaper delivery person
Pascal had the plan to earn a little money in addition to the citizen's money and took a job as a newspaper distributor.
But after just one work shift, his decision was clear: “I’m not going to continue.”
He justifies his harsh decision by saying that it is “complete exploitation!” Recently, the series also introduced a young man who is dissatisfied with his education.
According to the 21-year-old citizen's benefit recipient's story, his employer was dishonest.
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The 21-year-old Pascal had agreed with his employer to deliver a certain amount of newspapers.
What he didn't realize, however, was the additional advertising he was also supposed to distribute.
The volume of newspapers and advertising he had to sort and deliver was so great that his mother had to step in.
“It was really so much that Pascal wouldn’t have been able to do it alone,” she says in the episode of “Hartz and Cordial”.
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As he himself reports, Pascal resigned from his employer via his cell phone.
“I will now also make an audio message saying that I am quitting.” Despite the feeling of exploitation, he hopes “that he is not angry with me.
If he can't handle it, then so be it.” Maybe fate has another mini-job in store for Pascal.
Typical jobs with an income of 520 euros are, for example, in the catering industry or in factories.
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