Baden-Württemberg: The state government also disagrees about citizens' income

The Union and traffic light parties continue to grapple with citizen money.

Baden-Württemberg: The state government also disagrees about citizens' income

The Union and traffic light parties continue to grapple with citizen money. Even the green-black coalition in Baden-Württemberg is by no means in agreement. The introduction of January 1 now seems to be more and more wobbly.

Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - Traffic light parties and the Union are not only arguing about the planned citizens' allowance at the federal level, the green-black government coalition in the state is also not in agreement. "The state government does not have a unified opinion on this subject, and it will not get it established either," said Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann on Tuesday in Stuttgart. He assumes that the state will abstain in the Bundesrat and that the mediation committee between the Bundestag and the state chamber will be called. This would also mean that the timetable for the start of citizen income on January 1st would become more and more shaky.

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 "parental period" is also criticized - assets and adequacy of the apartment should only be checked after two years of receiving citizen benefit. Another point of criticism is the so-called protective assets - a maximum of 60,000 euros, which are not touched if someone draws citizen's income.

The labor ministers of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein are now also taking a stand against these plans. In a key issues paper that is available to the German Press Agency in Stuttgart, they are particularly bothered by the regulations on the two-year waiting period. The four countries are among those where the Union sits in government.

"A family of four could theoretically live in a condominium at the expense of taxpayers and have up to 150,000 euros on the high edge," says the paper. In addition, a single person without children can own a 140 square meter house in the best residential area with a market value of up to seven figures and does not have to use it to secure his own livelihood according to the traffic light plans.

The planned changes discourage the incentive to start work quickly and will hardly be understood by those who have to work in order to be able to pay for their housing, the ministers criticize.

The second reading of the traffic light plans will take place in the Bundestag on Thursday. There the traffic light parties have the majority.