Heilbronn (dpa / lsw) – According to newspaper reports, the south-west CDU is sticking to its no to citizens’ income. “In the Bundesrat, the citizens’ income should be rejected in the present version,” said CDU parliamentary group leader Manuel Hagel of the “Heilbronner Voice” and the “Südkurier” (Saturday). Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) had already said that Green-Black did not have a uniform position on this topic and would not get it established either. If the coalition partners do not agree, this usually leads to abstention.
With the reform, the traffic light wants to replace the Hartz IV system. From the point of view of the CDU and CSU, however, the citizen’s income sets “wrong incentives” and ends the principle of “support and demand”. The CDU wants to block the law on citizen income in the Bundesrat, which the Berlin traffic light coalition has already brought through the Bundestag. According to the newspapers, Economics Minister Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut (CDU) is to speak on behalf of the state government on Monday on the subject of citizen income.
The traffic light plans for citizen income include an increase in the current standard rate of 449 euros for single people to 502 euros. In addition, the unemployed are to be put under less pressure in the future by threatened withdrawal of benefits (sanctions) and instead be given more support with further training measures. In addition, the requirements for the permitted amount of assets and the size of the apartment for benefit recipients are to be relaxed.
