Union Politicians Want EU Child Benefit Rules Changed for Nearly 300,000 Children Abroad
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Children's allowances are also increasingly paid for young people living abroad. Union politicians now want to reduce the cost of living in these cases, for example in Bulgaria or Romania.
If you work in Germany and pay taxes, you can send children's allowances to your offspring in other EU countries. Representatives of CDU and CSU want to tighten the rules for this.
CDU and CSU politicians want to adapt the child allowance for children living in EU countries to the cost of living there. To do so, they demand a change in EU law.
Almost 300,000 children live outside Germany and receive German child benefit! Since 2011, their number has almost tripled. Can Germany stop this?
Readers debate child benefit for children abroad, EU law, controls and possible reforms.
The number of children abroad with German child benefit has tripled. The Union is now calling for reforms – but the ECJ is setting tight limits.
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