Citizen Money Fraud: "There Has Been a Whole Industry – There Are Clan Structures that Take Advantage of It"

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Minister of Labour Bärbel Bas wants to combat organised abuse of social benefits, which would require better data exchange, but skills are scattered.

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In the case of social fraud, the methods of criminals are becoming increasingly perfidious. According to economic expert Thorsten Alsleben, Managing Director Initiative New Social Market Economy, a structured industry with several branches has formed. Fraudsters hire scrap property and collect social assistance from tenants.

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Union and SPD want to reform the citizens' money. Labour Minister Bas also wants to contain welfare fraud – mainly in the Ruhr region.

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In an interview, Labour Minister Bärbel Bas spoke of "maficent structures" in social security fraud. Two experts put their statements in order. The new Federal Labour Minister Bärbel Bas spoke in an interview about her fight against undeclared work and social fraud. Here there are exploitative structures that lure people from other European countries to Germany. The criminals let these people work black for themselves and at the same time apply …

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The Chief Executive Officer of the Joint Association, Joachim Rock, welcomed the declaration of intent by Federal Minister of Labour Bärbel Bas (SPD) to take action against the organized abuse of social benefits by criminals, who have people from other European countries apply for civic money and then draw this off. {/mprestriction} "Organized exploitation and wage dumping must be decisively combated," he told the RedaktionsNetwork Deutschland (…

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Federal Labor Minister Bärbel Bas is taking action against the deliberate misuse of social benefits. Organized groups from Southeast Europe, in particular, are alleged to be fraudulently obtaining social security benefits through bogus employment contracts – often at the taxpayer's expense. Now, stricter controls, improved data exchange, and reforms are to take effect.