The head of the Federal Employment Agency, Andrea Nahles, has warned of the financial difficulties of the job center. In the federal government’s current budget draft, “insufficient active labor market funds and insufficient funds for administrative costs of the job centers are not planned,” she said world on Sunday. “It’s getting tight. We simply don’t have enough funding.”
The job centers are already reacting and planning less expensive measures for the integration of the long-term unemployed, she said. “The certainty that they can refinance is gone. In some cases, the job centers cannot fill staff because they don’t know how to finance it in the long term.” Nahles is aware that in the debate everyone said they had received too little.
“But I will do everything I can to make the need clear, because you have to ask yourself: what does that actually mean for the job centers in this country if the funds are cut? I will confront the MPs with that.” It is unacceptable that smaller job centers in particular have to constantly shift up to 80 percent from the budget for active labor market policy to the personnel budget in order to be able to maintain administration at all. “That is unhealthy.”