Dresden (dpa / sn) - After the housing benefit reform decided by the Federal Council, Regional Development Minister Thomas Schmidt expects long waiting times for applicants. It is right and urgently necessary to help low-income households with significant improvements in housing benefits, said the CDU politician on Friday, according to the announcement. "Nevertheless, the law will produce disappointments and frustration. That is already foreseeable today."
Schmidt emphasized that the reform would lead to an enormous increase in the number of applications. "Citizens will have to wait months before a decision is made on their housing benefit. In this difficult situation, that won't help anyone quickly." His house is trying to ensure that new staff from the municipal housing benefit authorities can be trained quickly.
