In 2021, 6.5 percent more was spent on benefits such as basic security in old age and help with care. The German Foundation for Patient Protection warns that the worst fears could come true in 2022.
Expenditure on social assistance rose again last year. With 15.3 billion euros net, the carriers spent 6.5 percent more on services under the Twelfth Book of the Social Code, as the Federal Statistical Office announced on Friday in Wiesbaden. These include, for example, basic security in old age and help with care.
According to the information, more than half was accounted for by basic security in old age and in the case of reduced earning capacity with 8.1 billion euros, which was 7.6 percent more than in the previous year. As in the previous year, the social welfare agencies recorded the largest increase in assistance with care with a plus of ten percent to 4.7 billion euros.
The German Foundation for Patient Protection warned that this increase would make the worst fears come true for this year. “Inflation, tariff adjustments and skyrocketing energy costs will first make more and more nursing home residents poor and then recipients of social assistance,” said board member Eugen Brysch of the German Press Agency. “But while the federal government is saving the energy suppliers, it is idly watching those in need of care.” Inflation compensation for care services must now come immediately.
At 1.2 billion euros, the subsistence allowance remained roughly at the level of the previous year, as the Federal Office announced. There was a decline of 4.2 percent in the area of health aid, to overcome special social difficulties and in other situations, in which at almost 1.3 billion euros 4.2 percent less money flowed than in the previous year. This help can be used to pay for household help in difficult situations, for example.
The statistics do not include the basic security for jobseekers, which is regulated according to the second book of the Social Security Code (SGB II).
Source: Stern
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