📋 Tender Overview
The Federal Cabinet has the Draft law to determine standard needs and to amend the Twelfth Book of the Social Security Code and the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act social care SGB XII and in theBasic securityfor job seekers SGB II newly determined on January 1 2021. The benefit rates in the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act are also being redefined.Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs Hubertus HeilIt is at the core of our welfare state to guarantee everyone a subsistence level and to enable them to participate in social life. Even in the Corona crisis basic security is there for everyone who needs support.If a new sample of income and expenditure EVS is available the legislature is obliged to recalculate the level of the standard needs. Social changes are also taken up. For example for the first time from 2021 the costs for mobile phone use will be fully included in the standard requirement. So far the costs of a flat rate for landline connections consisting of telephone and Internet have been recognized.
