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In order to ease the burden on the budget, Mathias Middelberg calls for citizens' benefit recipients to be allowed to do municipal work.
If you refuse, you don't get any money.
Munich – Money is tight in Germany.
This became particularly clear during the difficult negotiations on the 2024 federal budget.
But the traffic lights are heading towards the next budget crisis.
Because the budget for 2025 is already missing a double-digit billion sum.
If the CDU has its way, the sum could easily be raised - by cutting citizens' money.
It is not the first such proposal from the Union.
CDU politician Middelberg is calling for job offers for citizens' benefit recipients
The Union parliamentary group deputy in the Bundestag, Mathias Middelberg, has suggested making municipal job offers to the unemployed and removing the entire citizen's benefit rate for those who refuse to do so.
“If it were possible to place a million more people into work using citizen’s money, that alone would relieve the federal budget by up to 30 billion euros,” said the CDU politician to the
Editorial Network Germany (RND)
.
Mathias Middelberg from the CDU calls for community benefit recipients to be offered municipal jobs.
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As an example, Middelberg cited “specific public employment offers that municipalities could provide, for example”.
Accordingly, “cities’ green space offices” could offer work to citizens’ benefit recipients.
These offices are responsible for the management and maintenance of green spaces and parks, but also playgrounds, cemeteries and sports facilities.
Mathias Middelberg wants to completely cut off money for objectors
At the same time, Middelberg called for greater pressure to be placed on citizens' benefit recipients if they repeatedly reject reasonable job offers.
We are talking about 100 percent sanctions.
“Anyone who then rejects such employment offers should have their citizen’s benefit cut down to zero,” said the Union parliamentary group vice-president to the
RND
.
According to Middelberg, it's about motivating people who can work to take up work.
“Many of those affected are likely to be more committed to seeking employment in the regular labor market.” There should only be exceptions with regard to accommodation costs for households with children.
Work instead of citizen's money: Similar debate before and with asylum seekers
There have been similar debates before.
Last year, Jens Spahn had already called for penalties for unwilling recipients of citizens' benefit.
Recently there was a debate about compulsory work for asylum seekers.
Some East German districts had rushed forward with the demand, and district council President Reinhard Sager from the CDU is also in favor of it.
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At that time, Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil from the SPD referred to
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to the “applicable law of the municipalities” that could oblige asylum seekers who live in shared accommodation to do community service.
Although in individual cases it “may also make sense to employ people in collective accommodation during the sometimes long waiting period”, the measure does not contribute to “sustainable integration into the labor market”, Heil continued to tell the tabloid.
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