JobCenter sends repayment claims 16 years later: a scandal?

JobCenter sends repayment claims 16 years later: a scandal?

An extraordinary application by the job center in Berlin-Pankow causes excitement: A former Hartz IV recipient who is said to have received money for wrongly over 16 years ago is now being asked for repayment-this time in the amount of EUR 375.95, plus reminder fees. The person concerned initially thought the decision was a joke, but the job center makes serious. According to the social rights expert Utz Anhalt, it is scandalous that such claims are only raised after such a long time. The debate revolves around the question of limitation, because according to § 52 paragraph 2 SGB X, repayment claims can apply up to 30 years, while in many cases only a four -year limitation period should apply, reported against -hartz.de .

review of the citizens' allowance recipients

The reclaim should not be bound to an individual case. According to information from merkur.de Citizens' money recipient. An automated data comparison of around 9.1 million processed data between various authorities shows that job centers systematically pursue possible performance fraud, often with drastic consequences. Last year, 82,000 references to social service fraud were followed, which led to thousands of citizen benefit recipients lost their benefits or even pursued by criminal law.

The sharpness of such measures also brings dark shadows to the surface: those affected who unintentionally get into a recovery trap are often found in a hopeless situation, since they can no longer provide evidence from the past. The trend shows that the authorities are always rigorous against supposed fraud, while richer citizens are hardly exposed to rigorous checks. This not only causes outrage, it also causes the question to arise to what extent such practices are fair and fair.