AFP
New BA boss Nahles: Time for a general overhaul of Hartz IV
The new head of the Federal Employment Agency (BA), Andrea Nahles, who will be in office from Monday, sees the citizens’ benefit planned by the traffic light government as the “chance to end the Hartz chapter”. Hartz IV came from a time when the unemployment rate was just under ten percent, Nahles told the “VBW-Unternehmermagazin”. At that time there were 500 unemployed for one agent. “Today the situation is better, you can also look after the people who have extensive support more intensively
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