Correspondent in Berlin
One year and three months after its entry into force, the Bürgergeld
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the German equivalent of the RSA - already needs an
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update
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. This is in any case the opinion of the Minister of Finance, Christian Lindner, co-architect of this flagship measure of the Scholz government which will cost the State 26.5 billion euros in 2024, or 700 million euros in more than in 2023.
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The citizen's income is not an unconditional basic income and we must do everything to ensure that people who can work actually do so
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declared the liberal leader, as a warning to his partners in coalition (SPD and Greens).
This instrument acts, de facto, as a minimum income for the unemployed (563 euros per month for a single person), even if the latter (1.68 million) are not - by far - the sole beneficiaries.
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It provides reliable protection to people who lose their jobs or are going through a crisis ,
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summarized the Minister of Labor, Hubertus…
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