job centres to payments to Hartz IV-call recipients who have received too much – even small amounts. 2018 18 million euros were collected. It has cost 60 million.
The mismatch is visible at first glance: 60 million Euro have been spent Jobcenter 2018 to 18 million Euro debt. The mean Figures of the Federal employment Agency, the CDU member of the Bundestag Kai Whittaker presented. The “Süddeutsche Zeitung” had first reported about it.
Huge administrative expenses
administrative expenses, the claims necessary to make, is massive. The expenses are three times as high as the amount that will be ultimately collected. To compound the problem, the actual revenues are likely to have even located under the claims. In 2016, the ratio of expenses to earnings had not been quite so unfavorable, – stated in the “süddeutsche Zeitung”. Claims of twelve million euros would have been administrative costs of approximately 26.2 million euros.
recoveries, even in the smallest amounts
The job centres are obliged to make payments to welfare recipients to demand the return of these get too much. This can happen, for example, if a Affected already benefit was transferred, he takes a mini-job, or if a workers gets a salary increase.
In these cases, the Jobcenter has to get back the excess payments made. The employees have little room for manoeuvre. Already for amounts of seven euros for the Hartz IV-recipients too much, forced the office to send refund notices. From 36 Euro then “enforcement measures must be initiated”. That is, according to the “süddeutsche Zeitung”, a joint instruction of the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Federal Ministry of labour from the year 2014.
EUR 18 million in micro-amounts up to 50 Euro 2018 were recovered.
small claims limit against the bureaucracy problem
To tagesschau.de said Whittaker, a member of the Committee for labour and social Affairs: “There is a broad Consensus on the Hartz IV needs to be simplified. Hartz IV manages itself and loses itself in trifles.” That is why he call for a law to reduce bureaucracy in the course of this year.
Detlef Scheele, Chairman of the management Board of the employment Agency, welcomed in the “süddeutsche Zeitung” Whittaker’s initiative and noted that the wishes of the authority for years, the introduction of a minimum threshold. The current expense reimbursement and the waiver of small amounts disproportionate to the yield.
parties are dissatisfied with the recovery of practice
the SPD, the greens and the left party joined with the claims of Scheele’s. SPD parliamentary group Deputy Katja Mast said: “The proposal of a threshold seems to be an adequate solution.” They wanted to bring people quickly into work and not manage.
commented The Left-Chairman Katja Kipping, the collection of small amounts of have “nothing to do with economic sense, but very much with humiliation and harassment”. In the case of the Poorest’m going to look at every Euro, while companies “with tax tricks could come in a big way”. The “degrading treatment” of Hartz IV recipients must have an end, demanded Kipping. This meant that there were no sanctions against the recipients should be, by which they fall below the minimum subsistence level. The Left would call in this context, a “sanction-free minimum income” in the amount of 1050 euros per month.
the Green see the inefficient recovery as part of a larger problem. Here is the “imbalance” in the budget of the job centre, to show the social policy spokesman of the Green party, Sven Lehmann, said. “More and more money, the need for inclusion of measures of job-seekers used to be spent on bureaucracy excesses.” Lehmann complained: “in Particular, the many legal disputes tie up resources in the job centres, which prevent the employees from their core tasks, namely the care and placement of the work, to focus search.” Necessary a departure from the completely spilled out of control sanction practice””.
A spokeswoman for the Federal labour Agency stressed, however, that it is possible to predict whether the recovery practice, something will change. The legislature decides that. “It’s not in our hands.”
