The standard rates for citizens’ benefit and social assistance will rise by a good twelve percent from January. In Berlin, the Federal Council approved a corresponding regulation from the federal government.
Single adults should receive 563 euros per month – 61 euros more than before. Adults living with partners will in future receive 506 euros instead of the previous 451 euros. In the future, young people between the ages of 15 and under 18 will receive 471 euros (previously 420). For children from the age of 7 to the age of 14, the rate increases from 348 to 390 euros. For the little ones it climbs from 318 to 357 euros. The increase is expected to cost a total of around 4.5 billion euros.
Inflation is taken into account
The standard rate for citizens’ money is adjusted annually to prices and wages – as was previously the case with Hartz IV. In the past, however, the increase often lagged behind the development of inflation. With the introduction of citizen’s money this year, the calculation was changed. Now current inflation is also taken into account.
The amounts for personal school supplies also increase by around twelve percent – from 116 euros to 130 euros in the first half of the school year and from 58 euros to 65 euros in the second half of the school year. Support for personal school needs is part of the so-called education package for children, teenagers and young adults who receive citizen’s benefit or social assistance or whose parents receive the child supplement or housing benefit. At the same time, the rates of cash benefits for asylum seekers are also increasing.
