According to Finance Minister Lindner, the planned housing benefit reform should benefit more people – including pensioners.
Finance Minister Christian Lindner wants more people in Germany to be entitled to housing benefit from the state in the future.
With the planned housing benefit reform, the group of beneficiaries should increase, and there should also be a heating cost component, the FDP politician told the “Südkurier”. “The housing benefit in its reformed form should also reach people on low incomes and include people who own property with a small pension,” said Lindner.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) had announced a “major housing benefit reform” in view of the increasing financial burden on citizens. Details, however, initially remained open. The SPD parliamentary group had proposed an early increase in rates and new calculation methods with a flat-rate heating surcharge.
From Lindner’s point of view, pensioners, among others, should benefit from the reform. “I’m thinking, for example, of the retired couple who are now afraid of the heating bill in their apartment, but also of the single widow who lives alone in her former family house and is now worried about a small pension because the income for the increased gas prices is not enough.” The housing benefit reform should be part of the third relief package and will apply from January 1st.
Source: Stern
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