Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs & Universal basic income

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Dec 28 23

Seasonally adjusted increase: The hidden rise in long-term unemployment: The number of long-term unemployed has been rising significantly again for several ...

Quick Glance: Increasing Long-Term Unemployment

Rise in long-term unemployment in recent months.

Causes: Basic income and access for Ukrainian refugees.

Federal Employment Agency presents discouraging statistics.

Decline, surge during the pandemic, and subsequent decrease.

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ZDF

zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deutschland/spahn-buergergeld-verfassungsaenderung-sanktionen-100.html

Jan 14

Spahn wants tougher sanctions for citizens' benefits: Jens Spahn is calling for the constitution to be amended in order to cut off money for job refusers ...

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Jan 04

Cosmetic repairs? No, the Citizen's Income needs to be fundamentally overhauled: Stricter sanctions against those who refuse to work are the right thing to do ...

Quick Glance: Basic Income: Overhaul Needed, Not Cosmetic Repairs

Federal Minister of Labor Heil (SPD) plans to cut off payments for basic income recipients who refuse to take a job for up to two months

Those who could work but choose not to will no longer receive basic income

The draft for the basic income reform could have come directly from Heil's desk

Not all basic income recipients use tricks to avoid working

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Jan 28

CDU General Secretary Linnemann: “We will be the first to abolish citizens’ money”

welt.de/politik/deutschland/article249777764/CDU-Generalsekretaer-Linnemann-Werden-als-Erstes-das-Buergergeld-abschaffen.html

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Dec 29 23

The chairman of the Left Party, Schirdewan, criticizes the proposal by Federal Minister of Labour Heil to temporarily cut off support for recipients of ... Show more

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Nov 16 23

Citizens' money: Which reform needs to be urgently addressed: Too much money, too little incentive to work? The discussion about the citizen's income has flared ...

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Nov 13 23

Citizens' money: Minister Heil needs a supplement of 3.25 billion euros: Inflation, more unemployed people and higher numbers of refugees: Citizens' money is ...

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Mar 11

Pensions should continue to rise and Ukrainians should continue to receive citizen's benefits. Despite empty coffers, SPD politician and Labor Minister ... Show more

Labor Minister Heil gives a social guarantee: “We will not cut benefits that citizens are entitled to”

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Jan 30

Volume of 481 billion euros: Experts: Illegal work is flourishing in Germany: Undeclared work in Germany is a billion dollar business - that passes by the public ...

n-tv.de/wirtschaft/Experten-Schwarzarbeit-floriert-in-Deutschland-article24698906.html

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Jan 09

Penalties for those who refuse to work: Is the SPD's new citizen's benefit plan from Hubertus Heil a fool's errand?

berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/strafen-fuer-arbeitsverweigerer-ist-der-neue-buergergeld-plan-von-hubertus-heil-eine-luftnummer-li.2175043

Quick Glance: Bürgergeld 2024: Cuts for Job Refusal

Jobcenters can cut Bürgergeld for up to two months if job offers are rejected.

Bundeskabinett approves tightening of Bürgergeld regulations.

Planned regulation expected to save 170 million euros per year.

Controversial reform plans to increase sanctions for Bürgergeld recipients.

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Dec 29 23

Jusos criticize reform plans for citizens' money: Labor Minister Hubertus Heil wants to tighten sanctions on citizens' money. Criticism of the move comes not ...

Quick Glance: Criticism of Labor Minister Heil's Citizen's Income Reform Plans

Union and FDP welcome tightening of sanctions for citizen's income

Jusos criticize Labor Minister Heil's plans to tighten citizen's income sanctions

Heil proposes to tighten sanctions for citizen's income recipients who reject job offers

Citizen's income replaces the former unemployment benefit II and increases from 2023/2024

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T-Online Jan 16

Labor Minister Hubertus Heil wants to completely cancel citizens' money for "total refusers". Resistance is forming in the youth associations of the SPD and ... Show more

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Dec 06 23

FDP request: Federal Employment Agency rejects further change to citizen's income in January

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Jan 06

What are the benefits of stricter citizen's allowance sanctions?: Minister of Labor Heil wants tougher sanctions for some recipients of citizen's allowance ...

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Jan 01

En el debate sobre la renta de ciudadanía, el líder del grupo parlamentario del FDP, Christian Dürr, defiende los planes del ministro de Trabajo ... Show more

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faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/buergergeld-csu-will-schaerfere-sanktionen-fuer-totalverweigerer-19419665.html

Jan 01

Dispute over citizens' money: The CSU wants to impose stricter sanctions on “total objectors”

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Jan 13

Welfare state: Heil wants to save 170 million euros with a U-turn on citizens' money

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Jan 02

Citizens' money: CSU calls for THESE radical measures against total objectors: This year, citizens' benefit recipients will receive 12 percent more money ...

derwesten.de/politik/buergergeld-hartz-4-csu-cdu-ampel-hubertus-heil-id300777163.html

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Dec 29 23

100 percent sanction for total refuseniks: the loophole in Heil's shaky citizen's income plan

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focus.de/politik/meinung/der-schwarze-kanal-logik-des-kalten-buffets_id_251833537.html

Nov 25 23

Fleischhauer: My friend's story shows how crazy the welfare state is: A salary check shows which professions can no longer keep up with the citizen's income: ...

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Jan 02

Cuts in citizen's money: Fits in line with the traffic light: The coalition's austerity policy does not affect the supposedly or actually lazy people ...

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focus.de/politik/deutschland/ueberraschende-statistik-mehr-migrantenfamilien-erhalten-buergergeld-als-deutsche-familien_id_239765985.html

Nov 05 23

Surprising statistic: More migrant families receive citizenship benefits than Germans

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Nov 16 23

Citizen's income: Salvation's powder keg: The citizen's income has not detoxified society, but increased tensions because it undermines the sense of justice of ...

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Nov 21 23

"I could fill a hundred jobs immediately, but I can't find anyone": Federal Minister of Labor Hubertus Heil wants to get more refugees into work - and is calling ...

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Aug 30 23

Citizens' allowance: who will particularly benefit from the planned increases: Recipients of citizen money should receive significantly more money from the ...

Quick Glance: From 2024: Citizen's Income Increases to 563 Euros

More money for millions in need: The citizen's income will be significantly increased next year.

Single individuals can expect an additional 60 euros.

Starting in early 2024, single individuals will receive 563 euros per month, up from the current 502 euros.

Children up to the age of six will receive 357 euros instead of 318 euros.

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Nov 18 23

Merz on citizen's money: "They're not stupid, they can do math": Citizens' allowance will rise by around twelve percent next year, and entrepreneurs are worried ...

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Nov 22 23

Dispute with the Union: Labor Minister Heil rejects the proposal to cut citizens' money

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Oct 29 23

CDU wants compulsory work for all healthy citizens' benefit recipients: CDU General Secretary Carsten Linnemann has called for all healthy citizens' benefit ...

Quick Glance: CDU calls for work obligation for Bürgergeld recipients

Linnemann criticizes that job centers can hardly fulfill their task of job placement

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Jan 12

Hubertus Heil's sanctions on citizens' money: He should know better: Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil wants to cut off citizens’ money for “total refusers” ...

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RiffReporter Jan 03

SPD poverty policy: only those who work should eat healthily: The SPD has traditionally struggled with the issue of food poverty. To this day ...

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focus.de/politik/deutschland/interview-mit-carsten-linnemann-cdu-will-arbeitspflicht-fuer-alle-gesunden-buergergeld-empfaenger_id_224911093.html

Oct 20 23

CDU wants compulsory work for all healthy citizens' benefit recipients: CDU General Secretary Carsten Linnemann has called for all healthy citizens' benefit ...

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Jan 26

Dispute over citizens' money: Heil criticizes Lindner's zero-round forecast: Labor Minister Heil is irritated by his cabinet colleague Lindner ...

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faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/arm-und-reich/fdp-will-buergergeld-weniger-stark-erhoehen-gruene-und-spd-protestieren-19353553.html

Dec 01 23

Because of the budget crisis: The FDP wants to increase citizens' money less significantly

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Dec 05 23

Citizens' money: How 61 euros could blow up the traffic light government: The CDU and FDP want to reverse the increase in citizens' money. This had already been ...

zeit.de/wirtschaft/2023-12/buergergeld-erhoehung-ampel-koalition-haushaltskrise-hubertus-heil

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Dec 01 23

Reduction in the Citizen's Income increase: traffic light plans shock for recipients - "indecent debate"

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faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/buergergeld-lohnt-es-sich-doch-zu-kuendigen-19325169.html

Nov 22 23

Debate about social benefits: When it's worth quitting for the citizen's income after all

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Jan 19

Citizens' money savings plucked out of thin air? Criticism of Minister Heil: There is criticism of the planned cuts in citizens' benefits: the Ministry of Labor ...

stern.de/politik/deutschland/buergergeld-einsparung-aus-der-luft-gegriffen--kritik-an-minister-heil-34378540.html

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Jan 27

Citizens' Money: The Facts: Labor Minister Hubertus Heil wants to cut citizens' benefits for those who refuse to work for up to two months and thus save 150 ...

wiwo.de/my/politik/erstmal-die-fakten-teures-buergergeld/29616634.html

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Dec 10 23

Citizen's income: Jobcenter employee at his wits' end - these recipients make him despair

derwesten.de/politik/buergergeld-jobcenter-kuerzung-arbeit-erhoehung-id300749962.html

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Sep 27 23

Controversial draft law: Cabinet decides on basic child security: It is considered a central project to combat child poverty: the federal government has launched ...

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Jan 06

Cuts to the Citizen's Income: Don't give the subsidy a chance: In order to clean up the budget, the government wants to abolish the citizen's income bonus ...

taz.de/!5981341/

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Oct 20 23

Federal Minister of Labor Heil: "Work pays more than citizen's income": Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) thinks it's stupid to quit a job to draw citizen's ...

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Nov 12 23

'Too much hammock, too little demand': Citizen's income will cost 2.1 billion euros more

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Nov 15 23

Fierce dispute over citizen's income: "It's about the minimum subsistence level": CDU Secretary General Carsten Linnemann wants to abolish the social benefit in ...

stimme.de/regional/region/streit-buergergeld-linnemann-sozialverband-heil-art-4862073

Quick Glance: Work Requirement: CDU's Call for Bürgergeld Recipients

CDU calls for work requirement for Bürgergeld recipients

Unemployed individuals to engage in community work to receive social benefits

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Dec 13 23

Hubertus Heil: How an intangible is now fighting for the citizen's income: Hubertus Heil successfully avoids polarization and lives well with it as Minister of ...

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Aug 30 23

CDU politicians criticize increase in citizen income: Union faction Vice Spahn sees the increase in citizen income as the wrong signal and calls for more ...

tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/buergergeld-kritik-cdu-100.html

Quick Glance: Citizen's Income 2024 - Spahn's Criticism

Citizen's income to increase by 61 euros in 2024.

Planned increase of citizen's income criticized as questionable.

Average amount of citizen's income for a four-person family is 2,311 euros.

Spahn calls for stricter sanctions for individuals unwilling to work.

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Jan 05

The citizen's income rap: Hubertus Heil, the surfer: Who is riding the waves of the right-wing wind? - A rap response to the Minister of Labor's push to impose ...

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faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/lieber-buergergeld-als-arbeit-zu-niedriger-mindestlohn-19244922.html

Oct 16 23

Doubts about the wage gap rule: citizen's income is better than work: Are workers quitting their jobs to take the citizen's allowance? A survey of cleaners ...

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Nov 14 23

Shorter working hours: IW President: "This is a devastating signal": Collective bargaining is underway in the steel industry. IG Metall is demanding a four-day ...

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Jan 02

Comment: Citizens' money is increasing too much: Because of the aging society, finding work is easier than it has been for decades. Yet the government rewards ...

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Nov 30 23

Citizen's income instead of work: expert explains the "citizen's income effect": With the planned increase in the Citizen's Income, many people fear that ...

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Dec 15 23

Citizen's income: At the expense of contributors: 1.5 billion euros are to be saved for the federal budget at the Federal Employment Agency ...

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Dec 17 23

Serious is different: now the traffic lights are also playing tricks in the social sector

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Sep 13 23

Cabinet approves increase: citizen's income rises by 61 euros: The increase of the citizen's income has been decided. Recipients are to receive around twelve ...

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Aug 31 23

Quota in recent years halved: Employment agency places as good as no unemployed: For CDU Secretary General Linnemann, the figures are frightening: only 5 ...

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Jan 05

Cuts in Citizens' Benefit: A Calculation into the Unknown: The traffic light coalition wants to save millions through new sanctions. However ...

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ga.de Jan 07

Criticism of Heil's sanction plans for the citizen's income: Due to pressure to save money, the traffic light government is cutting back. The Minister of Labor ...

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Frankfurter Rundschau

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Dec 13 23

Budget dispute: Citizens' money affected by austerity measures, according to report

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Jan 23

Working is worth more than citizen's money - but there is an exception: As of January 1, 2024, the standard rates for citizens' money are to be increased by ...

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Nov 13 23

Federal budget: Everything is getting more expensive - including the Citizen's Income

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faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/kindergrundsicherung-co-wir-fahren-den-sozialstaat-gegen-die-wand-19311505.html

Nov 13 23

Basic child security & Co.: “We are driving the welfare state against the wall”: Municipal representatives shake their heads at a hearing in the Bundestag about ...

Quick Glance: Child Basic Security: Youth Challenges

Concern among municipal representatives regarding planned family benefit.

Labor agency identifies new barriers for youth entering the workforce.

400,000 youth from basic income households lack support for entering the workforce.

Youth falling out of the basic income system due to the reform will receive a new financial benefit.

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Dec 02 23

CDU politician: No money for Ukraine refugees immediately: “The fact that the war refugees from Ukraine would all immediately receive citizen’s money was ...

morgenpost.de/politik/inland/article240725938/CDU-Politiker-Nicht-sofort-Geld-fuer-Ukraine-Fluechtlinge.html

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Nov 17 23

Citizens' money debate: Why work is often simply not worth it: The dispute over compulsory work for citizens' benefit distracts from the central incentive ...

rp-online.de/wirtschaft/arbeit/buergergeld-debatte-warum-sich-arbeit-einfach-oft-nicht-lohnt_aid-101585497

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Dec 01 23

Social spending: Federal Ministry of Labor sticks to increase in citizens' benefit

zeit.de/wirtschaft/2023-12/buergergeld-erhoehung-arbeit-ministerium-heil-spd-fdp

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faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/fdp-stoppt-kindergrundsicherung-und-stellt-bedingungen-19222102.html

Oct 05 23

Exclusivo F.A.Z.: O FDP suspende o regime básico de abono de família: Uma semana após a decisão do Conselho de Ministros, estão a surgir novos conflitos: O ...

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Jan 02

Whatever the Minister of Labor proposes, it will be easy for the Union to go one better. This makes it all the more important to look at the fundamentals ... Show more

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Aug 21 23

"500,000 Syrians who receive citizen's benefits are looking for employment": The traffic light wants to cut integration assistance for the unemployed and ...

welt.de/politik/deutschland/article246985258/500-000-Syrer-die-Buergergeld-beziehen-suchen-nach-Beschaeftigung.html

Quick Glance: 500,000 Syrians on Citizen's Income Seek Employment

Bringing 100,000 people out of citizen's income would relieve the federal budget by up to three billion euros.

To get these people into work, Minister of Labor Hubertus Heil (SPD) must advocate for targeted, occupation-related language support, as well as benefit reductions if reasonable job offers are not accepted.

The Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, led by Heil, informed the states at the end of June that funds for integration into work under the Social Code II are to be cut by 500 million euros in the federal budget for 2024.

364

Jan 27

Employment agency boss Nahles demands data on school dropouts: Every year tens of thousands of young people leave school without a qualification ...

tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/nahles-schulabbrecher-kindergrundsicherung-100.html

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Nov 20 23

Citizens' money: Germany's government wants Ukrainians to go to work: In other European countries, many more refugees are integrated into the labor market ...

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Oct 30 23

Welfare state under pressure: don't forget work incentives: The worst thing you can do is deny the problem - as Labor Minister Hubertus Heil of the SPD does.

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zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2024-01/jobcenter-jobangebote-arbeitssuchend-aufruf

Jan 06

Job center: What strange job offer did you get?: Anyone looking for work will receive offers from the job center. Often also ones that are inappropriate ...

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faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/arm-und-reich/kindergrundsicherung-bda-spricht-von-buerokratieaufbau-ohne-mehrwert-19295108.html

Nov 07 23

Criticism of basic child protection: "The result is that benefits reach families even worse"

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Nov 16 23

Citizens' money: And work is worth it: The dispute over citizens' money distracts from the actual problems of the welfare state. What the federal government ...

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Jan 04

Citizens' money: Lazy trick: “Total refusers” should lose their right to citizen’s money. A campaign with false numbers is responsible for this ...

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