More than every fourth child in Berlin lives from Hartz IV – BZ Berlin

In December 2020, a total of 27 percent of children and adolescents under the age of 18 lived in households with Hartz IV benefits in Berlin.

That goes out one on Monday in Berlin publish response of the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family to a parliamentary question from the Left Party. According to this, there were 162,412 minors across Berlin “in benefit communities with benefits in accordance with the Social Code (SGB) II”. The total number of children and adolescents under the age of 18 at the time was in Berlin 607.473.

Hartz IV therefore mostly affects children of parents with foreign roots as well as single parents. 101,154 Berlin children lived in a community of needs with SGB II benefits with at least one person with a foreign nationality. The number of affected children of single parents was also 71,147.

According to the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family, in Berlin “There is still a need for action” in the prevention of child and family poverty. The proportion of minors affected is declining. However, this is due to the increase in the total number of children. The absolute number of those affected “remains at a higher level,” it said.

The current data situation also does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the effects of the corona pandemic on child and family poverty. The first empirical analyzes assumed that children from families with little educational knowledge, receiving unemployment benefit II, from single parents or from a migrant background are more affected.

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