Unjust and absurd: Single parents often do not receive maintenance and are also disadvantaged in child benefit

Unjust and absurd: Single parents often do not receive maintenance and are also disadvantaged in child benefit

child benefit for all children! No deductions for children single parents!

Delia Keller received a letter from her ex-partner last September. In it he announced that he had changed jobs and could therefore pay less maintenance for their children. Keller, who himself as a designer, artist and lecturer, then applied for a so -called maintenance advance from the youth welfare office. This is granted single parents if the other parent pays no or too little maintenance.

Unfortunately, the situation of Delia Keller is no exception in Germany, but the rule. According to the German Institute for Economic Research, half of all single parents in this country do not receive maintenance from the other parent. Another 25 percent get less than they are entitled.

Finally received the first advance of maintenance when the basement, she noticed that compared to minimum support that children in Germany is entitled to, 125 euros per child and month were missing. She found that this difference is due to the fact that the total child benefit has been deducted from the sum of the maintenance advance since 2008. As a result, single parents and their children do not receive child benefit.

DELIA KELLER perceives this regulation as outrageous. She believes that the state will once again punish single parents who receive no maintenance from the ex-partner. This regulation means that families who already have little to get less. For this reason, Keller started a petition entitled "Child benefit for all children! No deductions for children single parents!". So far, over 13,000 people have already signed the petition, the goal is 50,000 signatures.

The regulation affects more than 830,000 children in Germany, whose mothers or fathers receive maintenance advance. According to an expert committee of the Bundestag, which met in June last year, this regulation should be abolished urgently.

In addition to this specific regulation, Delia Keller is also annoyed that the state rarely returns the incorrectly not paid money from the non -payers. The so -called recourse, i.e. the repayment of the maintenance advance, usually takes place only to a small part. According to figures from the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, only 20 percent of the maintenance residents paid back the advance to the state. According to calculations by the IFO Institute in Munich, 70 to 80 percent of the maintenance -liable for maintenance

The process of recourse is complicated, however, since countries and municipalities are responsible and many individual processes such as payment agreements and enforcement measures are necessary. Three quarters of the administrative effort in connection with maintenance advances are eliminated. In addition, the municipalities pass on 40 percent of the money back to the federal government.

Delia Keller finds this situation intolerable. She criticizes that the state is simply without this money and instead saved the single parent who are the greatest of poverty group.

For this reason, Delia Keller founded the “Fair for Children” association together with others in 2016. The association is committed to the tax and financial relief from single families, since classic marriage is preferred as a family form in the German tax system and single parents are disadvantaged. Keller believes that children should be financially favored instead of marriage stones and calls for a reform of these injustices.

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