Different variant
Paus presents a draft for basic child security
08/18/2023 10:53 am
In the coalition dispute over basic child security, Minister Paus sends her draft for the project to the departments for approval. In doing so, she meets the deadline demanded by Chancellor Scholz. The Greens politician has linked her consent to other projects with the project – and produced a scandal.
Federal Family Minister Lisa Paus says she has completed the eagerly awaited draft law for basic child security. “The basic child security will come. The draft law is now in the project clearing and is before the Federal Chancellery and the Federal Ministry of Finance,” said the Green politician to the portal The Pioneer. “As requested by the chancellor, I presented different variants.”
Before the parliamentary summer break, Scholz had asked Paus to “quickly” present a draft law that should also contain several alternatives. The draft should then be discussed by the cabinet by the end of August if possible.
“At the request of the Chancellor, Family Minister Paus has drawn up a draft law on basic child security with different variants over the summer, which is currently in the final votes,” said Green Party leader Britta Haßelmann to the editorial network Germany. “We will now get our joint traffic light project, basic child security, on the way,” she emphasized. “Because it is clear that we want to work together to combat child poverty in Germany,” said Hasselmann.
So far only placeholders in the household
The traffic light coalition has been fighting fiercely for months about the basic child security planned from 2025 and its financing. Paus initially gave a budget of twelve billion euros, most recently she spoke of up to seven billion euros.
Finance Minister Christian Lindner has so far only considered a “placeholder” of two billion euros in the budget for 2025. Because of the open financing issue, Paus stopped Lindner’s proposal for tax cuts for companies in the cabinet on Wednesday. This had fueled the conflicts in the traffic light coalition. Government circles said that the coalition wants to clarify the issue at the upcoming cabinet meeting in Meseberg.
It is planned to combine various family policy benefits with basic child security and to simplify the procedure for obtaining them. Paus is also pushing for performance improvements, which Lindner has so far rejected.