The German Association of Cities has called on the traffic light coalition to reach an immediate agreement in the dispute over the planned basic child security. “The new basic child security should be a milestone against child poverty. Now the traffic light has to hit the knot so that the new system can come by 2025,” said Managing Director Helmut Dedy of the editorial network Germany (RND). “The cornerstones of the family minister are already pointing in the right direction,” said Dedy. A quick vote in the federal government is necessary.
In the case of basic child security, various services are to be bundled, from child benefit and child allowance to financial support for school trips and leisure time. Many families have not yet applied for benefits – due to ignorance or bureaucratic hurdles. Families and their children should benefit from basic security from 2025.
Greens push for implementation
Greens parliamentary group leader Britta Haßelmann correctly said that the city council called for a quick implementation of “this important traffic light project”. “This requires additional budgetary funds and more effective administration,” she told the German Press Agency. “It is unacceptable that in a rich country like ours every fifth child lives in poverty.” Basic child security is of course also about poverty prevention. The child’s subsistence level must be designed in such a way that all children have the same opportunities for social and cultural participation.
Green leader Ricarda Lang told the “Bild am Sonntag”: “The basic child security must come, and it will come, so it must also be financed.” Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) had told the t-online portal in view of ongoing budget negotiations that there was still no concept for basic child security. From his point of view, it is all about digitization and simplifying the support of children, not necessarily about more money. Family Minister Lisa Paus (Greens) repeatedly insisted on the implementation of the coalition agreement in which the project is anchored.
