The Diakonisches Werk Passau with 75 employees has initiated insolvency under self-administration. The reasons are varied, said managing director Sabine Aschenbrenner to the Evangelical Press Service on Wednesday. In recent years, diakonia has faced increasing costs in areas of work, “which were often not refinanced by the grant providers,” she explained.
This primarily included cost increases in the personnel area due to possible tariff increases, energy allowances and other subsidies that had to be paid to employees. In addition, Diakonie Passau had spent “large sums of its own resources” on tasks that the state had delegated to the social welfare agency, “without compensating for them,” she said.
The Diakonisches Werk Passau is the first provider within the Diakonie landscape in Bavaria to initiate insolvency proceedings. Basically, according to the information, the company should be saved. That is why the route of self-administration insolvency was chosen in order to initiate restructuring proceedings. An external consulting firm will support the provider in this regard.
The Diakonisches Werk with its 75 employees maintains, among other things, social and outpatient care services, debt and insolvency advice, marriage counseling centers, a social psychiatric service and refugee counseling centers. The annual budget volume is around 3.7 million euros.