This project is about “that the performance claims that are available are actually used,” said Scholz. “We know, for example, that the child allowance is only used up to 30 percent – and that’s bitter when you know that it’s about families that are really poor, although one parent or both parents work,” added the Chancellor added. “We want that and we will change that.” The basic security should therefore be as unbureaucratic as possible.
Social associations had previously criticized the fact that the traffic light parties had made no statements about the future of basic child security after their coalition committee. “The ‘traffic light’ postpones the future of the children until the end of the day,” said the President of the Child Protection Association, Heinz Hilgers. The introduction of basic child security, with which existing family policy benefits are to be combined and expanded, needs a longer lead time, he warned.
