This is how the federal government is gambling away trust

The pressure was and is great, politically and temporally, no question about it. There is no political rehearsal for a pandemic. But in an understandable attempt to cushion and compensate for ever new hardships, the federal government has created a bazooka mess that no longer follows any internal logic. Even more: the help is not really getting started. Because the previously unknown turnover criterion was chosen for the November and December aid, the existing digital registration platform for the federal aid first had to be reprogrammed. Now there is no boom, but a mess.

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