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Basic income support: Minister Bas announces consistent action against abuse
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New Welfare Reform Enforces Work Requirement from JulyStarting July 1, benefits may be reduced or stopped monthly if recipients fail to cooperate, targeting welfare abuse.
- Federal Labor Minister Bärbel Bas defends the upcoming welfare reform as a step against benefit misuse.
- The reform emphasizes commitment, personal responsibility, and the obligation to seek employment.
- The passive-active transfer is enhanced to promote jobs rather than passive benefit receipt.
- Non-cooperation by recipients can lead to monthly reductions or complete suspension of benefits.
Whoever wants to preserve, modernize and improve the welfare state must not look away here. That is a matter of justice.— Said by Bärbel Bas, SPD chair, in an interview with Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung about the Grundsicherung reform.
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- About 1.4 million people most recently received basic support for at least five years, representing roughly two in five recipients.
- At the end of 2025, long-term recipients accounted for the highest shares in Berlin, at around 45 percent, and Bremen, at 43 percent.
- The number of long-term unemployed rose from 2024; in 2025, it exceeded one million, compared with 700,000 in 2019.
- In September, 3.7 million employable people received basic support, 145,000 fewer than in the same month the previous year.
It cannot be that so many people are receiving Bürgergeld at the taxpayers' expense, even though they could go to work.— René Springer, AfD labor-market politician, said this in the context of the debate over long-term Bürgergeld recipients.
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- The 12-month grace period now has a ceiling of 150 percent of the municipal guideline, while recipients normally have to cover the rent above that level themselves and the asset-protection grace period has been removed.
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- The SPD and CDU/CSU intend to approve the reform this week, but the Bundesrat must still consent before its largely planned start on 1 July 2026.
- ETF investments for private retirement provision have so far been protected up to 40,000 euros during the qualifying period; that safeguard could end, meaning holdings above the allowance would have to be sold even at a loss.
- The proposed allowances are 5,000 euros up to age 20, 10,000 euros for ages 21 to 40, 12,500 euros for ages 41 to 50, and 15,000 euros from age 51.
- The Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs says the secondary benefit applies only after recipients have first used their own income and assets for their living costs.
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Benefits should only be received by those who depend on them.— Bärbel Bas (SPD), the minister responsible for the new basic security reform.
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