Citizen money receiver gets documents from the job center: they end up in the next dumpster

Bürgergeld receiver Chris from Duisburg makes life easy. The documents from the job center end up directly in the garbage.

Citizen's money recipient Chris from the social documentary "Poor Germany" refuses any work and prefers to live at the expense of the state. Now he receives documents from the job center – but he obviously has no use for them.

Reading time 4 minutesEvery day, our editors receive emails from citizens' money recipients. Many report that they feel badly treated by their employees in the job center. Often legal disputes are involved, because certain services are not granted, sometimes the misconduct of individual job center employees is reported. In order to deal with unjustified behaviour of employees, there is, among other things, the means of the service supervisory co…