Sensible Discharges 2026? Merz Minister Frei Mentions Concrete Number
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Basic security instead of civic money: the cabinet wants to decide on the reform. Implementation is planned for 2026. What does that mean for the amount and the application?
The Merz government is working on discharges for citizens and businesses. Minister of Chancellery Frei shows an example of what citizens expect in 2026.
Head of Chancellery Frei has confirmed that the planned reform of the civil money will be decided by the Cabinet next Wednesday.
The government wants to decide on the planned reform of the citizens' allowance before Christmas, but until the stricter rules for the unemployed come into force, it will take a while.
At the CSU party congress, the Federal Minister of the Interior Alexander Dobrindt declared that there was nothing left to criticise, that it was only a matter of detail. With the Minister of Labour, Bärbel Bas, one was "in an excellent conversation with each other". Unresolved are only "a few legal questions of wording", in principle one was agreed. {/mprestriction} The decisive thing is that "citizens' money is abolished, that we have a new ba…
Reading time 5 minutesWhat people in everyday life call "rules", in the citizens' money officially means "rule requirements". It is the monthly lump sum, which is intended to cover typical current expenditures – from the purchase of food, to the household flow, to small expenditures for social participation. Especially because it is paid flat-rately, there is no cash-bonus obligation and no requirement, for which exactly the money is to be spent…
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