Enough to live on? The eponymous ZDFinfo documentary presents Hartz IV is not critical to the test and experts, individuals and the politicians.
Munich . Full pedestrian zones, crowds at the Christmas markets – Germany totter currently in the consumer frenzy. A mulled wine for 4.50 euros? For Alena Small unthinkable. The single mother lives as 4.2 million German citizens from Hartz IV, your daily budget for food and Drink is € 4.82.
documentation on ZDFinfo: Can you lead with Hartz IV to a decent life?
“With” Hartz IV ” everyone has what he needs to live.” A sentence with the CDU politician Jens Spahn in the spring, triggered in 2018, massive protests. “Just because you’re not starving this is not to say that it also takes on the social life part,” criticizes Ulrich Schneider from the joint welfare Association in the Film. He doubts that you can lead with Hartz IV to a decent life.
The model of the former VW personnel Director Peter Hartz in 2002 developed and the red-green Federal government under Gerhard Schröder eventually adopted, divides the Nation into poor and rich. The pressure on the unemployed has grown with the Reform 16 years ago, the exploding low-wage sector. Who needs support from the state, has more duties, sharper controls, and, where appropriate, sanctioned.
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Currently 416 euros an adult Hartz IV-recipients on a monthly basis. “We have already demanded of 2002, a basic security in the amount of 511 Euro”, the 77-year-old Peter Hartz in the documentary. The Federal government opted for a much lower amount. The Ministry of labour determines the needs of: food and Drink, clothing, hygiene, travel, health, and financial costs. For the diet currently 144,86 Euro per month are provided, clothing is estimated with 36,41 euros and hygiene article with 15,79 Euro.
Single parent Hartz IV recipient shall disclose for ZDF-documentary of your finances
That’s enough, “just for the bare necessities”, such as the single Alena confirmed Small. In the Film, they disclose their finances To come to their Hartz IV set of needs for your little son (240 euros), rent (300 euros), as a rule, in addition to cost (70 Euro), hot water is more necessary (11,49 Euro) and the increased demand for Single parents (149,76€). This gives rise to a claim of 1187,25 Euro. But Alena also has income is deducted from this sum: child allowance (Pro rata 133,08 Euro), parental allowance (Pro rata 160,40 Euro), the maintenance of the father (366 Euro) and insurance fee (30 Euro). So your claim is at the end on 497,77 Euro. An amount for which there is a swimming pool, cinema or the zoo, are hardly in it.
spokesman for the Munich-based panel in the ZDF-Doku: poverty runs through all groups of the population
Approximately 33 percent of all single parents are at risk of poverty. Without the panels, the volunteers of food to the needy distribute, not many would come over the rounds. The Harald Ulrich from Munich’s white table. “The number of our guests is increasing constantly,” says the helper in the Film. “And we see that the poverty that runs through all demographic and age groups. I think this is disgraceful.“
“Enough to live on?”, Wednesday, 20: 15, ZDFinfo
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