Ten years ago, the start of Hartz IV fell. Thank the laws of that red-green government are considered employment miracle and success story. But SPD leader and Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel also admits error in.
Federal Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) errors in the introduction of Hartz IV granted ten years ago , “Even then, we would have to introduce the minimum wage, so as not to spread this so unfair low-wage sector,” Gabriel said the “Bild am Sonntag”. It adds that those who had worked for decades and had then become involuntarily unemployed, according to the unemployment benefit Hartz IV leakage should not be treated the same as those who had never worked. The value of the work must be preserved, said Gabriel.
Basically, the labor market reforms had been but the right way, the SPD politician said. Hartz IV was “the successful merger of unemployment benefits and social assistance”. This is “urgently needed and socially just” been. Earlier it was “often lucrative” been “to collect unemployment benefits and additionally somewhere black instead of working a normal job to take,” Gabriel said. “In addition, hundreds of thousands of welfare recipients fell without any help just through the grate and got even less money than it is today.” This system has been changed to “promote and challenge”.
“Two million unemployed few”
The Vice Chancellor also referred to the fall in unemployment. “The success is so visible,” said the minister. “At that time we had five million unemployed, today there are two million less.”
On 1 January 2005, the then, means-tested unemployment assistance was abolished, and was merged with the social welfare. The rule set for Hartz IV has risen at the turn of 391 € to 399 €
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