Munich: City clears out sleeping places for homeless people at Stachus

Munich: City clears out sleeping places for homeless people at Stachus

The city of Munich is clearing out homeless people’s sleeping quarters at Stachus. Twelve people have been sitting there in front of the former Galeria Kaufhof building for a long time, as the city reports. It goes on to say that these are mostly homeless beggars who are aware of all offers of homeless assistance, … Read more

Private provision: Federal Council wants to enable subsequent purchases in Pillar 3a

Private provision: Federal Council wants to enable subsequent purchases in Pillar 3a

prevention Closing gaps in the third pillar The Federal Council wants to strengthen self-provision and enable purchases into pillar 3a. This is met with criticism. Also because reduced income of up to 600 million francs must be expected. Anyone who was unable to pay enough into their private provision should be able to make up … Read more

“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 … Read more

ver.di supports demand for a national education summit – make education a top priority

The United Services Union (ver.di) joins the appeal published today (March 14, 2023) by the foundations (Bertelsmann Foundation, Deutsche Telekom Foundation, Karg Foundation, Robert Bosch Foundation, Vodafone Foundation, Wübben Foundation) and is appealing to the Federal Chancellor and the country heads to set up a national education summit and make education a top priority. ver.di … Read more

More money for social benefits, that’s how much they’re increasing by…

From June 1 next year, more people will enter the social welfare system and monthly benefit amounts will also increase. Now they will be calculated as 25 percent of the poverty line and in 2024 as 30 percent of the threshold, which is updated every year, writes pariteni.bg For decades, the guaranteed minimum income, which … Read more

“Russia would be crazy to attack a NATO country”

Kishore Mahbubani The Asian political scientist believes that the war in Ukraine will ultimately be just a “footnote in the epochal conflict between the US and China for world domination”. Dusseldorf Sometimes a change of perspective helps to understand. Kishore Mahbubani, one of Asia’s most prominent geostrategists, has a different view of the West that … Read more

Increasing Energy Charges: Flensburg Supplies Revenue | NDR.de – Information

Status: 08/26/2022 11:38 The city of Flensburg would like to support citizens with economic issues immediately and without having forms. For this he donated 50,000 euros to the “Flensburg will help” citizens’ fund. The Flensburg Community Fund, operate by Diakonie and financed by donations, has been in action for eleven many years when individuals in … Read more

New publications for social innovation, insight for municipalities

The ESF is the European Union’s (EU) main instrument for investing in human capital. It contributes to EU social, employment, education and skills policies and structural reforms in these areas. The 2014-2020 program has therefore given way to that for the 2021-2027 period which bears the name ESF+. To support the implementation of social innovations, … Read more

“The state government must follow words with deeds”

“The state government must follow words with deeds” Yesterday, Wednesday, the state government of Lower Saxony spoke with energy suppliers, trade unions and the employment agency about a hardship fund because of the sharp rise in energy prices. Friedrich Stubbe, state chairman of the VdK Lower Saxony-Bremen social association, says: – “We see it as … Read more

How social researcher Gerhard Bäcker looks at Mönchengladbach

June 15, 2022 at 5:10 am Lecture by Gerhard Baker : This is how a social researcher looks at Mönchengladbach – Gerhard Bäcker spoke in Mönchengladbach about the city’s problems. Photo: Reichartz, Hans-Peter (hpr) – – Moenchengladbach The prospects are not rosy, as the social researcher made clear in his lecture at the Volksverein. There … Read more