Social reform: Bas zu Linnemann: Citizens’ allowance “not so easy”

Minister of Labor Bärbel BAS has rejected the claim from the CDU to completely deprive people of the citizens’ money, which repeatedly rejected a reasonable work. “It’s not as easy as Mr. Linnemann imagines,” said the SPD leader in Berlin about the advance of the CDU general secretary. “We always have to ensure a subsistence level in this country, so it is not so easy to withdraw services.” However, the SPD also believes that those who did not want to work should feel consequences.

CDU general secretary Carsten Linnemann had pleaded for a paradigm shift in the social system in the “Bild am Sonntag”. “I want a civil allowance system that we don’t just rename,” he said. The core of a reform must be “that in the future we not only sanction someone if he repeatedly rejects a reasonable work. But: He must no longer get civil allowance.”

Linnemann called on the black and red coalition to an agenda 2030, comprehensive reforms, which had enforced ex-Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD) with Agenda 2010. Bas emphasized that she was “definitely ready” with the Social State Commission to check the existing social benefits. Above all, it must be about efficiency and transparency.