Germany’s counties are calling for savings in the social area /
LKT President Brötel sees potential for citizen benefit and parental allowance –
“Fully comprehensive mentality no longer works”
Osnabrück (ots) – Before the Bundestag vote on the debt package
Germany’s rural circles required savings in the social sector. “New debts
Alone cannot be the answer. We therefore need especially in the area
of social expenditure also the courage and strength to be financial
Consolidation, “said district council president Achim Brötel in an interview with the
“Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” (NOZ) and called the citizens’ allowance and parental allowance
as “construction sites” for the future government.
“What we are currently affordable is simply no longer affordable.
Fully comprehensive mentality for all situations will no longer work, “said
The district council president.
When saving, he thinks “especially of the citizens’ allowance, the much too high
Personnel expenses in integration assistance, but also numerous others
Social benefits that are increasingly dynamic, “said Brötel.”
If we are concerned with more work incentives in the citizens’ allowance and a loss of the
Earth times for expensive apartments and lush assets. “Because everyone who
Was unemployed longer, but then worked again, saves tax money. “Others too
Construction sites, such as parental allowance, should be looked at closely. And: of course
the limitation of irregular migration must be one of the central
Be challenges for the new government coalition. “
The background to Brötel’s demands is the acute financial shortage of many counties
And municipalities. “Because for all of this, the bills always arrive with us”,
said the district council president. “That is why we need a social tasting bearer
urgently a structural reform to noticeably
relieve. “That is only with a consistent task criticism and” one
courageous degradation of excessive standards “possible.
The reason for the throw -in of the districts is the vote in the Bundestag about a
Reform of debt brake and special funds for defense and infrastructure
In volume of up to a trillion euro this Tuesday. “Our country is allowed
do not take over with the new billion dollars, but always has to
Thinking that expenses at one point inevitably also save savings
are different. Otherwise we will not be able to
To cope with the repayment starting in the new legislative period, “he said
the “noz”.
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