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The CDU wants to reform citizens' money.
The planned “new basic security” is causing sharp criticism from the Greens.
Merz and Linnemann would have lost the measure.
Berlin – The CDU wants to abolish citizens’ money in its current form.
A “new basic security” should take its place.
The plan includes some tightening measures for benefit recipients.
There is now sharp criticism of the Union plans from the Greens.
The plan by CDU leader Friedrich Merz and General Secretary Carsten Linnemann is a “threat to the savings of middle-class families,” said Andreas Ausdretsch, Green Party deputy and member of the Social Committee, to
Spiegel
.
The Green politician particularly criticizes the fact that the CDU wants to abolish the waiting period of twelve months in its “new basic security” and carry out an asset check from day one.
The Union also wants to address the limits on protective assets.
Green politician sees CDU citizens' benefit plans as a "blow against the self-employed"
According to Audretsch, this is “above all a blow to the self-employed, to people who dare to do something and move the country forward.”
According to the CDU's wishes, anyone who only needs to bridge a month or two, for example because an order has been cancelled, should have to liquidate their retirement provision or even move," Audretsch told
Spiegel
.
“Friedrich Merz and Carsten Linnemann have completely lost their temper,” said Green Party politician Andreas Audretsch in response to the CDU’s citizens’ money plans.
(Archive photo) © Serhat Kocak/dpa
Audretsch also criticizes the CDU's planned way of dealing with so-called total objectors.
If a basic security recipient who is able to work “refuses work that is reasonable for him without any objective reason,” it will be assumed that he is not in need, explains the Union party in its concept for the citizen’s benefit reform.
Green politician is critical of the CDU's sanctions plans for the “new basic security”.
“Parents permanently cutting off 100 percent of the necessities of life means families have no money for food or clothing,” Audretsch warned in Spiegel.
“Friedrich Merz and Carsten Linnemann have completely lost their temper.” According to the social politician, the Greens are pursuing the goal of getting people back to work as quickly as possible.
“The CDU is playing low-wage workers off against those in need,” explained Verdi chief economist Dierk Hirschel.
“This is neither Christian nor social,” Hirschel wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
“This is anti-employee politics.” There has also been criticism of the CDU's citizens' benefit plans from within the SPD.
The CDU wants to abolish citizens' money in its current form and is relying on faster sanctions
The CDU plan for citizens' money wants to rename the social benefit.
“The name 'citizen's money' is misleading and is an expression of the political concept of an unconditional basic income,” says the four-page concept.
Above all, the Union wants to implement sanctions more quickly, easily and less bureaucratically.
In addition to the appointment requirement and the abolition of the waiting period, according to
Spiegel,
the concept provides for new adjustment mechanisms for standard rates, “binding integration agreements” in placement and more work incentives.
“With our counter-proposal 'New Basic Security' we want clarity and fairness,” explained CDU social politician Kai Whittaker on X (formerly Twitter).
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The CDU leadership wants to discuss the concept on Monday, March 18th.
After the meeting, General Secretary Carsten Linnemann, the chairman of the party's workers' wing CDA, Karl-Josef Laumann, the chairman of the SME and Economic Union (MIT), Gitta Connemann, and the former president of the Federal Social Court, Rainer Schlegel, will report on the results of the deliberations to report.
(ms/dpa)