Munich --
This statistic does all the critics of Hartz IV in the cards:
Misrepresentation, fraud, illegal - the number of initiated criminal and administrative penalties against "Hartz IV" receiver is in the past year rose by 1.8 percent to just under 165,000 cases.
This follows from the balance sheet of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) on benefit fraud in the "Hartz IV" system, as reported by the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
This is usually a false declaration of long-term unemployed compared to the job centers and associations (Argentina) in order to collect higher benefits than they really deserve.
Catches were also significantly more potential black market. From the balance sheet shows that have been passed down from the 126,000 completed procedures well because of the 39,000 cases of suspected undeclared to the competent customs administration.
2008, there were still approximately 36,500. More and more acts of those in need and then end up in the law enforcement authorities. With nearly 13,000 people was "the case made a reasonable offense to the prosecution," says the report. This corresponds to an increase of 4.9 percent compared to last year.
Total 2009 had an annual average of approximately 6.5 million people according to the Social Code II, entitled to the basic ( "Hartz IV"). Based on this overall figure, the abuse rate was, according to the federal agency at 1.9 percent.
Including misdemeanors fall so minor violations of rules of law for which the law provides a fine. The warnings and fines collected, over which the Job Center, have the choice amounted to about 74,000 cases to 3.7 million euros.
