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Hartz IV sanctions: Harsh criticism of the new regulation - "I don't want to be a job center consultant"

2022-06-10T14:34:56.253Z


Hartz IV sanctions: Harsh criticism of the new regulation - "I don't want to be a job center consultant" Created: 06/10/2022, 16:23 By: Lisa Mayerhofer Detlef Scheele, head of the Federal Employment Agency, is sitting in an office. © Frank Molter/dpa The sanctions for Hartz IV recipients are largely suspended. Detlef Scheele, CEO of the Federal Employment Agency, takes a hard look at the gover


Hartz IV sanctions: Harsh criticism of the new regulation - "I don't want to be a job center consultant"

Created: 06/10/2022, 16:23

By: Lisa Mayerhofer

Detlef Scheele, head of the Federal Employment Agency, is sitting in an office.

© Frank Molter/dpa

The sanctions for Hartz IV recipients are largely suspended.

Detlef Scheele, CEO of the Federal Employment Agency, takes a hard look at the government's decision.

Nuremberg/Düsseldorf – Hartz IV recipients will have fewer sanctions to fear by the middle of next year.

The government has decided to suspend the sanctions for breaches of duty under Hartz IV.

One reason for the moratorium is the citizen's allowance planned for 2023 instead of the current Hartz IV system, which should also be linked to a new regulation for sanctions.

In addition, the legislature must implement a decision of the Federal Constitutional Court from 2019.

Hartz IV: Scheele calculates with the suspension of the sanctions regulations

The outgoing CEO of the Federal Employment Agency (BA), Detlef Scheele, has repeatedly criticized the change in sanctions for Hartz IV recipients.

Now he is doing it again: "It would have been better if the government had cast the judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court of November 2019 in legal form," said the head of the BA to the

Handelsblatt.

The Karlsruhe judges decided in 2019 that the benefits of Hartz IV recipients can be reduced by up to 30 percent if the conditions are violated.

Reductions of only ten percent are now allowed for one year - and this only after the second violation, for example against reporting requirements.

The Bundesrat allowed the corresponding suspension of the regulations, which the Bundestag had already decided, to pass on Friday.

When the new citizens' allowance comes next year, cuts of 30 percent should be possible again.

"It's difficult to understand," said Scheele.

"I don't want to be a job center consultant who has to explain that." 97 percent of benefit recipients would not come into contact with sanctions at all because all the requirements would be followed.

Scheele described it as a pity that the focus was now again on sanctions.

Scheele urged caution when assessing the new citizens' income.

He does not believe that simply granting a surcharge on the previous Hartz IV rates would be expedient.

"Because even if the standard rates were higher, it would be better to go to work and earn collective wages wherever possible," he said.

"In any case, the chances have rarely been as good as they are now," emphasized Scheele, with a view to the empty job market.

Hartz IV: The federal agency can only help companies to a limited extent in recruiting staff

In this context, he conceded that the Federal Agency can currently only help companies to a limited extent in recruiting staff.

Only 700,000 people received unemployment benefit I. "Anyone who registers as unemployed is usually placed back shortly thereafter," said Scheele.

"We have an employee labor market in which employers have to offer attractive working conditions if they want to survive."

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Scheele advocated relaxing the conditions for refugees to remain in Germany.

"Tolerated refugees who have been here for a long time, who have work, whose children go to school here, should be allowed to stay in my opinion," he said.

Germany must also get better at recognizing foreign qualifications.

“And you have to ensure that immigrants are allowed to bring their families with them.

Otherwise they'll be gone again quickly.” Scheele will be retiring at the end of July.

His successor, the former federal labor minister and SPD leader Andrea Nahles, is already familiarizing herself with the job.

(lma/dpa)

Source: merkur

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