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Finance Minister Lindner wants to start the job turbo for all recipients of citizens' benefit.
The FDP politician also confirms the zero round because the standard rate is too high.
Berlin – In addition to pensions, citizens’ money remains a controversial topic in Germany.
While Finance Minister Christian Lindner announced a possible zero round of the citizen's benefit increase for 2025 in Maybrit Illner's TV show, the debate received new fire.
Hubertus Heil first spoke up with criticism.
BA boss Andrea Nahles also struck a blow in the heated debate about citizens' money.
So there is no calm in the discussion, especially because Lindner, who has support from the ranks of the FDP if the citizen's benefit increase is suspended in 2025, has stepped up his game again.
Get citizens' benefit recipients into work more quickly: Lindner wants to expand Jobturbo to all recipients
Accordingly, Christian Lindner wants to get those receiving citizen's money into work more quickly.
In the Rheinische Post
(January 30), the FDP politician spoke
out in favor of extending the so-called job turbo to all recipients of citizen's benefit for the faster integration of refugees from Ukraine into the labor market.
This would mean, among other things, closer contact with the job centers.
On the other hand, better additional income opportunities are needed.
Anyone who receives social benefits and works should not have as much of their earnings taken into account.
“It must be possible to work your way out of receiving benefits step by step,” said Lindner.
“Citizen’s money, no pension”: According to Lindner, this is the “hot topic” of the debate – only help in times of need
The finance minister described citizens’ money as a “hot topic”.
“It must be more strongly enforced in practice that citizens' money is not a pension, but rather a help in times of need,” emphasized Lindner.
The standard rate for citizens’ benefit “now tends to be too high” for recipients.
The calculation of the standard rate follows statistics, but the development of inflation was overestimated.
On this basis, Lindner reaffirms his forecast that there could be a zero round of citizens' money in 2025.
At the beginning of the year, the citizen's allowance increase had increased by an average of around twelve percent compared to 2023.
For single people, this means an increase of 61 to 563 euros per month.
Adults who live with a partner receive 506 euros.
For children and young people, the rates are between 357 and 471 euros, depending on age.
Criticism in the citizens' allowance debate: Further increases “would not be particularly well received
In particular, BA boss Nahles and SPD Minister Heil, who recently announced a new pension package, are likely to be upset by the recent statements.
While Nahles spoke in an interview with the Editorial Network Germany (RND) about the fact that “we shouldn't change horses in the middle of a gallop” in the citizens' benefit debate, Heil already complained that the traffic light discussions were being carried out through the media.
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But voices are becoming increasingly louder, especially in the FDP, that due to the possible new budget crisis that the traffic light is heading for in 2025, all ministries must deliver “real savings”.
This also applies to the payout and, above all, the citizen's benefit increase in 2025, which would "certainly not be particularly well received" by the population.
At least that's how FDP budget expert Torsten Herbst put it in
Bild
.