1,000 euros for the long-term unemployed
“I’m more in favor of cutting social benefits”
October 17, 2024 – 6:51 p.mReading time: 3 min.
Robert Habeck supports the start-up bonus for the long-term unemployed. Citizens react to his suggestion, including a citizen’s benefit recipient and a job center employee.
The fact that long-term unemployed people should receive 1,000 euros if they work in employment subject to social insurance contributions for at least a year is met with rejection by many. Among others, Andrea Nahles, head of the Federal Employment Agency, and Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz made critical comments.
Robert Habeck recently reiterated his idea by saying that one cannot only rely on the intrinsic motivation of those affected, but must find other solutions. Some of the t-online readers agree with him, others strictly reject the plan.
Silvia Krebs writes: “I don’t think the start-up bonus is a bad idea if it helps to motivate one or two long-term unemployed people to look for a job and hold on for a year. Maybe they will enjoy working again and stay employed longer if the social situation improves Environment changes and he experiences appreciation from his employer and colleagues.”
Wolfgang Ball varnish On the other hand, he believes restrictions are more promising than rewards: “I’m against the bonus, but rather in favor of significantly reducing social benefits. Then they’ll start looking for a job on their own.”
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“The bonus is a completely reasonable proposal,” says Markus little one. “It would be cowardly of the federal government to simply abandon them because of the howling of the typical know-it-alls. That would be a loss of credibility.”
The t-online reader does not feel resentment towards the bonus recipients, on the contrary: “I would like to grant this bonus to anyone who finds a job using the citizen’s money and keeps it in the long term. Because it is a difficult path and performance should be rewarded.”
Manfred Riess scoffs: “What a great idea. Congratulations on this once-in-a-century idea. I have demonstrably worked for 57 years. May I give Habeck my bank details? With 57,000 euros I would get out of my damp basement apartment and you would be assured of my vote. I would also have a few more Friends who would like to benefit from your wonderful idea.”
Sandra Barczykherself a recipient of citizens’ benefits, considers the expression “ass-high bonus” that is being used by the public to be “below all dignity.” She would have called it a motivational bonus. The recipient of basic security for pensioners does not think the basic idea is wrong:
“The bonus can be a good incentive,” she says, but considers other questions to be more important: “Why is a person unemployed? Why hasn’t a suitable job been found yet? How great are the efforts of the employment agency or job center to place people well ?”
“Bad” also thinks so Florianhimself a long-time employment agent in a job center, used the word “ass-high bonus”. “Citizen benefit recipients should not be sold as enemies of the state,” he says as someone who has to deal with them on a daily basis.
“I generally think ideas of breaking new ground are good,” writes the t-online reader in relation to the bonus, although he suspects that it would only work in individual cases because “very few people think that far in advance.” Nevertheless, he believes it is worth trying out because, even in individual cases, a one-off payment would be far cheaper than continuing to receive citizen’s benefit.
“After working for a year, you have acquired the right to unemployment benefit I and, even if you become unemployed afterwards, you probably wouldn’t have to return to the job center for the time being. Furthermore, after a year you should have understood that work is more than just earning money and perhaps nothing more want to receive citizen’s benefit.”