“Bundling State Benefits: The Basic Child Security System to be Implemented in 2025”

HANNOVER From 2025, the child allowance and other state benefits are to be bundled in the basic child security system. Greens and FDP have been arguing about the cost of the project for weeks. Paus had registered a need of twelve billion euros because she also wants to increase services.

Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP), on the other hand, confirmed on the television channel phoenix that the essentials for basic child security had been done in financial terms. His experts in the ministry expected another two to three billion euros in additional funding if all eligible families actually took advantage of the increased aid that had already been decided. A “digitized automated procedure” should help here so that the aid reaches the families who are entitled to it.

Paus said: “Child poverty is not only a shame for our country, but also a heavy burden for our society.” Anyone who grows up in poverty has fewer chances of a good school education, qualified training and a carefree life. “Basic child security is one of the best future investments we can make, and every euro it costs pays off twice and three times over.”

Green parliamentary group leader Britta Haßelmann explained that the subsistence level calculated for children must guarantee young people fair opportunities for social and cultural participation: “Every euro is well invested.” Detlev Schulz-Hendel, head of the Greens parliamentary group in Lower Saxony’s state parliament, called on the FDP to move. The basic child security is laid down in the coalition agreement of the federal government, he emphasized.