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Planned suspension of the Hartz IV sanctions: "Those who work hard will be stupid in the future"

2022-05-19T15:03:11.725Z


Planned suspension of the Hartz IV sanctions: "Those who work hard will be stupid in the future" Created: 05/19/2022, 16:50 By: Lisa Mayerhofer Will there soon be no more sanctions for Hartz 4 recipients? One draft envisages suspending almost all cuts for the time being. (Archive photo) © Sebastian Kahnert/dpa The suspension of sanctions against Hartz IV recipients is about to be passed in the


Planned suspension of the Hartz IV sanctions: "Those who work hard will be stupid in the future"

Created: 05/19/2022, 16:50

By: Lisa Mayerhofer

Will there soon be no more sanctions for Hartz 4 recipients?

One draft envisages suspending almost all cuts for the time being.

(Archive photo) © Sebastian Kahnert/dpa

The suspension of sanctions against Hartz IV recipients is about to be passed in the Bundestag.

But the criticism of the plans is great.

Berlin – The traffic light coalition wants to make life easier for Hartz IV recipients.

According to the federal government's draft law, there should only be sanctions for Hartz IV recipients in the event of "extraordinary failure to report", and then only at a rate of ten percent.

The corresponding template is to be passed by the Bundestag on Thursday.

Hartz IV and citizen's allowance: job center against suspension of sanctions

This means that anyone who misses an appointment at the job center must expect a corresponding deduction.

The refusal to accept a job, on the other hand, should no longer lead to a sanction.

The suspension of the Hartz IV sanctions, which should apply for one year, is the precursor to the citizens' allowance planned by the traffic light coalition, which is to replace the previous Hartz IV system in the coming year.

Criticism of this measure comes from all corners: On the one hand, there is the Federal Employment Agency.

She "continues to take the view that reduction options should generally be provided, since these correspond to the legal principle of promoting and demanding", quoted the

Frankfurter Allgemeine

in the statement of the Federal Agency for the hearing of the Bundestag. 

An employee of a job center put it a little more bluntly to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, who wished to remain anonymous: “This is a catastrophe.

If they have to take jobs or meet conditions in the future, then Hartz recipients will dance on our heads.”

The CSU MP Silke Launert expressed a similar view: “We fundamentally reject citizen income.

It sets false incentives and completely thwarts the principle of promoting and demanding.

The one who is diligent and sticks to the rules will be the fool in the future.

A promising household looks different!”

Hartz IV sanctions: "Social law is not criminal law"

However, criticism also comes from the parity welfare association, which, among other things, represents the interests of Hartz IV recipients.

There one finds the planned extensive suspension of the Hartz IV sanctions "half-hearted and inconsistent".

The sanctions in the basic security would have to be completely abolished.

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The general manager of the Paritätisches Gesamtverband, Ulrich Schneider, said of the ongoing sanctions: “This type of cane pedagogy is inhumane and neither up-to-date nor effective.

Social law is not criminal law.'

They deserved support instead of sanctions.

A sanction-free, needs-based and humane basic security is needed, explained Schneider.

"So that the citizen money does not also become a sham and just a repainted Hartz IV with a new name, it really needs courageous reforms."

(lma / dpa / AFP)

Source: merkur

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