Germany Higher Standard Tender

The Federal Cabinet today approved the Standard Requirements Level Update Ordinance 2022 RBSFV 2022. With the ordinance the standard needs in the area of social assistance SGB XII - assistance with livelihood as well as basic security in old age and in the case of reduced earning capacity and in the basic security for jobseekers SGB II becomeJanuary 1st2022 as well as the requirements for the equipment with personal school supplies for the two school half-years beginning in the calendar year 2022 increased. The calculation to be made is based on legal requirements.According to this the standard needs are to be updated by means of an ordinance for those years for which the standard needs are not to be newly determined by law on the basis of a new sample of income and expenditure. In addition the two partial amounts for equipment with personal school supplies must be updated. There is a uniform calculation for the amount of both updates which consists of two components the national average development of prices for those goods and services that were taken into account as relevant for the level of the regular requirements in the statutory redefinition as well as the national average development of net wages and salaries per employee.The level of the two rates of change result from the comparison of the developments in the period from July 1 2020 to June 30th 2021 compared to the period from July 1 2019 to June 30th 2020. Both developments lead to a mixed index in which the price development has a share of 70 percent and the development of net wages and salaries has a share of 30 percent Has.Due to the legal requirement for calculating the amount of the annual updates there is no scope for decision-making within the framework of the ordinance for the resulting amounts of the standard requirement levels as well as the two partial amounts for equipment with personal school requirements.The rate of change for the two updates is accordingly 0.76 percent. The development of the prices relevant to standard requirements was0.1 percent the higher price development from July 2021 onwards cannot be taken into account for statistical reasons. It will be included in the update for 2023. The rate of change for net wages and salaries was2.31 percent.