Jobcenter Does Not Refund the Full Rent to Each Eighth Citizen Money Household

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Hundreds of thousands of citizens' money households had to pay part of their housing costs themselves last year. The reason: If the housing costs are above the ceiling, the job center will only refund them at the level of the limit.

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Last year, job centers in Germany only partially reimbursed an average of one in eight households receiving citizen's allowance for their rent costs. The affected households had to divert an average of €116 from their standard housing allowance to cover housing costs.

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Last year, job centers in Germany did not reimburse an average of 334,000 households the full cost of the warm rent in the form of citizen benefits. This emerges from a response from the Federal Government to a minor question from the left-wing faction in the Bundestag, on which the “Spiegel” reports. For 12.6 percent of all households in the basic insurance system, only part of the warm rent was paid. On average, affected households had to dive…