Hartz IV: Recipient receives one cent too little - and expresses bad suspicion

A Hartz IV recipient receives one cent too little per month from the job center and raises a far-reaching accusation.

Neubrandenburg - Hartz IV * recipient Christian Götz receives one cent too little from the job center every month.

The reason for this is a reduction in his rental costs, which he informed the office immediately.

But how does that fit together?

The rent takes over the office for Hartz IV recipients.

This is then offset against the remaining services and paid out monthly.

Hartz IV: Twelve cents too little - extrapolated for the whole year

At Christian Götz, the new rent was 514 euros, as

reported by

the

.

However, since he lives with his partner and her son in the appropriate apartment, the job center divides the rental costs * by three.

Rounded up, that adds up to 171.33 euros.

However, if you take the rounded amount again three times, you come to 513.99 euros - so exactly one cent is missing.

When asked at the employment office, Götz will be informed that this will be automatically calculated by the system *.

However, he wonders whether there is a system behind the missing mini-amount.

“For an individual that's only 12 cents a year.

But if the job center accounts for a million people, that's 120,000 euros in profit for the job center, ”the 55-year-old notes.

Hartz IV: rounding sequence

The

checked again with the employment office in Neubrandenburg.

This was followed by an explanation that if the rent was split, as is also the case with Mr. Götz, shifts in the cent range could occur.

The missing cent is therefore not a saving measure of the job center, but only a rounding result.

This is even pointed out in the unemployment benefit notification.

When calculating the benefits *, the following sentence can be found: “The needs for accommodation and heating are divided equally among the members of the household community.

Slight deviations are possible if the total amount of the requirements for accommodation and heating cannot be exactly divided by the number of people. ”

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