Fewer and fewer people have received housing benefit in recent years, although apartments have become more and more expensive on average. The traffic light coalition now wants to change that. What the federal government’s third relief package could do.
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Roland Preuss
It is an instrument that Olaf Scholz (SPD) obviously has high hopes for. The federal government would “dramatically expand” the housing allowance, the chancellor had promised when announcing the third relief package in August. Now the coalition is getting concrete. While increased heating bills and sometimes absurdly high advance payment demands are making tenants and property owners sweat, the federal cabinet wants to pass the bill on reforming housing benefit and another heating cost subsidy this Wednesday. However, there is still a big question mark: So far, the federal states have paid half of the housing benefit, but they do not want to support half of the expensive reform. The financing should therefore also play a role at the Prime Minister’s conference with Scholz next Tuesday. The most important answers about housing benefit.