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Inflation and Hartz IV – job center boss calls for improvements: “100 euros more”

2022-06-23T12:54:15.053Z


Inflation and Hartz IV – job center boss calls for improvements: “100 euros more” Created: 06/23/2022, 14:47 By: Lisa Mayerhofer According to calculations by the Paritätisches Gesamtverband, the Hartz IV standard rate is clearly too low. © Niehoff/Imago Images The rising prices are putting pressure on Hartz IV recipients. The demands for an increase in benefits are getting louder and louder. A


Inflation and Hartz IV – job center boss calls for improvements: “100 euros more”

Created: 06/23/2022, 14:47

By: Lisa Mayerhofer

According to calculations by the Paritätisches Gesamtverband, the Hartz IV standard rate is clearly too low.

© Niehoff/Imago Images

The rising prices are putting pressure on Hartz IV recipients.

The demands for an increase in benefits are getting louder and louder.

A job center manager also spoke up.

Berlin – Before the coalition committee on Wednesday evening, there are many calls for further relief from citizens and companies.

It is expected that the sharp rise in energy prices and high inflation will be a central topic of the coalition committee - but there should not be any concrete resolutions.

Hartz IV – job center boss: “It’s no longer possible for people to cope”

Social organizations have been raising the alarm for some time that rising energy and food prices are putting pressure on people with low incomes in particular and are even causing them to live in dire straits.

They demand an increase in Hartz IV benefits.

The spokesman for the federal network of job centers, Stefan Graaf, is also committed to adjusting the benefits for Hartz IV recipients.

The managing director of the Aachen City Region Job Center told Report Mainz: “People just can’t handle it anymore.

We see a lot of desperation, a lot of hardship, a lot of misery.

I think people need about 100 euros more for their big thumbs.” If he looks at the current price increases, the managing director thinks that the adjustment of services should happen as quickly as possible.

DGB boss demands surcharge for the Hartz IV standard rates

He is not alone with his demand: The DGB boss Yasmin Fahimi also called for a surcharge on Hartz IV in the run-up to the coalition committee on Wednesday: "In view of the further rising prices and the uncertainties in the gas supply, another relief package is absolutely necessary for the citizens Citizens,” Fahimi told the newspapers of the Funke media group.

"In such a time of crisis, wage policy cannot be the sole burden of preventing losses in purchasing power and cushioning social hardship," warned the chairwoman of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB).

In her eyes, an "ongoing, monthly supplement to the Hartz IV standard rates is necessary," said Fahimi.

After all: In July, Hartz IV recipients will receive the Corona bonus in the form of a one-time payment of 200 euros.

The bonus is intended to cushion the additional expenses caused by the increased prices.

However, it is not yet known when the next regular increase in the Hartz IV standard rate will come and how high it will be.

(dpa/lma)

Source: merkur

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