As of: April 4, 2024, 12:43 p.m
By: Tadhg Nagel
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The dispute over basic child welfare continues. The FDP is threatening to cancel the project and wants a revision. The Jusos are against it.
Berlin - The FDP has threatened not to agree to basic child welfare in the Bundestag if Federal Family Minister Lisa Paus (Greens) does not present a completely revised bill. Juso boss Phillip Türmer sees this as a further attempt to delay the law. The Taxpayers' Association generally supports the project, but is also in favor of less bureaucracy.
“If the minister wants to save her law, she must finally put something practical on the table,” FDP General Secretary Bijan Djir-Sarai explained his position to the
Bild
newspaper. If Paus does not fundamentally revise the draft law, his party will not wave the plan through in the Bundestag.
Basic child protection “remote from reality”? The FDP is opposed to the 5,000 new jobs
The FDP politician justified the rejection primarily with the around 5,000 additional staff positions that are planned for the implementation of the project according to the Federal Family Minister's current draft. In its current form, the law is “a bureaucratic monster, unrealistic and will hardly help any child effectively out of poverty,” continued Djir-Sarai.
FDP General Secretary Bijan Djir-Sarai threatens the Greens over basic child welfare. © IMAGO/M. Popov
Djir-Sarai's position largely reflects that of the rest of the FDP parliamentary group. Parliamentary group leader Christian Dürr had also previously criticized the plan to create thousands of jobs as “absurd”. Finance Minister Christian Lindner also expressed concerns about the creation of new jobs. “I find the idea that the state has an obligation to provide social benefits disturbing – especially when 5,000 new state employees have to be hired to achieve this,” said Linder
No more “running from Pontius to Pilate”: Paus sees basic child support as a relief
This was indicated by Paus on Saturday (March 30).
She emphasized
to the
Rheinische Post
that the aim of creating the positions was to “move from the citizens’ obligation to collect to the state’s obligation to provide”. According to the Family Minister, citizens are currently burdened too much by bureaucracy; They would have to “run from Pontius to Pilate” for applications. In addition to such relief, the aim is to ensure that applications are processed quickly and thus ensure that money actually reaches the families.
For Juso boss Türmer, the refusal attitude reveals “the true face of the FDP in combating child poverty,” as he made clear to
Spiegel
. “More than one in five children in Germany” live in poverty, but the FDP “doesn’t care” about that, according to Sturmer, a cynical attitude that a government cannot take. According to him, only 35 percent of those eligible are currently claiming the child allowance. This shouldn't continue like this.
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“The aim of basic child welfare is to ensure that poor children and their parents finally receive the benefits to which they are entitled,” continued Türmer. In order to make this possible, one must “radically simplify the administrative processes for families”. The Liberals would block the creation of necessary positions, but would not make a counterproposal themselves. Ultimately, the FDP stands for “complicated bureaucracy and more child poverty”.
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The SPD social expert Martin Rosemann sees it differently. According to him, the blame for a possible delay lies more with the Green-led Family Ministry than with the FDP. “I don’t share the accusation that the FDP has been delaying the process so far and that’s why everything is now taking longer,” said Rosemann on Thursday (April 3) on
Deutschlandfunk
. Instead, the draft law “was submitted to us relatively late, and unfortunately it has many weak points that we have to solve together in the parliamentary process.” This is the actual reason for the delay.
(tpn)