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The Federal Cabinet today approved the Rule Requirements Level Update Regulation 2020 RBSFV 2020. The regulation will adjust the standard needs in the area of social assistance SGB XII and basic benefits for job seekers SGB II as of 1 January 2020. This is done in accordance with legal requirements.Thus the regular needs in years in which the rates of benefit are not restated on the basis of a new income and consumption test are to be updated. The calculation takes into account both the average development of prices for goods and services requiring regular demand and the average national development of net wages and salaries per employed employee. Both developments lead to a mixed index where the price trend has a share of 70 percent and the net wage and salary development has a share of 30 percent.Federal Labor and Social Affairs Minister Hubertus HeilIf prices and wages change this must also be reflected in the benefit rates for recipients of basic benefits and social assistance. For it is at the core of our social constitutional state that all people have enough financial resources to participate in society. This is a legal mechanism concern which comes in this year to fruition. However at least as important is that all people in Germany can rely on the welfare state as a reliable partner.
