Mr Hoffmann, SPD Leader Andrea Nahles has announced plans to reinvent the welfare state. What do you say?
In the core, there is a need to make our welfare state and the systems of social security for the future. At the same time the stark imbalance must Call between and Promote to be overcome. We need to preemptively prevent that people are dependent on basic security. A continuing offensive and the legal right to training. The world of work is changing, driven by technological innovations – in the next years. The people need security, a welfare state, you can rely on. If we increase the confidence in the welfare state significantly, strengthens our democracy.
What is the greatest injustice in the Hartz-IV-System?
The level of performance for the majority of the people living below the official Poverty line. For a long time, the DGB calls, therefore, that the rule sets are re-determined. You need to protect against poverty and a minimum level of social participation. In addition, the reasonableness must be defused rules. This means, for example, that only shall be considered as reasonable, the tariff to be paid. It may not be in a social market economy, that about 200000 full-time employees are dependent on Hartz IV and their income must increase.
you will also require a longer unemployment benefits.
We need to bind the duration of the unemployment benefit back to the post times. It is deeply unjust, when workers from slipping with a long employment biography, after twelve months in the. First-rate corrections for over 50-Year-old has not been already made, which is good enough.
The DGB wants to abolish sanctions. They believe that it will go where the work and just make ends meet, understanding for a basic backup without any consideration?
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report of the joint Association of total, Every Sixth in Germany is living in poverty
Rainer Woratschka
sanctions may not lead to the slipping under the existence minimum. Total sanction-freedom is not for the solidarity of the workers in posts funded unemployment insurance but purposeful. The topic is overrated also. Just three percent on a monthly basis sanctioned, that is, 97 per cent. Therefore, the focus needs to be placed on active promotion, so that people are protected against social decline.
