It‘s true that the latest sanctions against welfare recipients aren‘t through parliament yet, still it is an astonishing 180 turn by a cabinet that promised to treat the weak more fairly.

Yet, in what is news to me, I stumbled over it when researching the aforementioned sanctions, in March 2024 the Haushaltfinanzierungsgesetz already designed new sanctions, allowing job centres to cut welfare by 100% for 2 months if any type of work is being rejected. I don‘t know how they got away with that, without the constitutional court rejecting it, but here we are.

Of course it‘s not much of a surprise after the media wrongfully claimed that welfare had a major increase while it was only adjusted for inflation, which is required by law.

In the end all trust in the parties that claimed to offer a more humane way of dealing with the most needy is gone and many people like me consider themselves politically homeless.