The financial shifts of the German job centers have been criticized for years, but they also serve a purpose.

Newsner sparked inquiries in which it was reported that the job center used 265 million euros from the budget for the long-term unemployed for its own administration.

The administrative costs under criticism

As early as 2005, the “ Spiegel ” denounced that the Federal Employment Agency had so far hardly used any money for labor market policy measures and that funding for the personnel service agencies had been cut, but administrative expenses had increased by a full 300 percent. In addition, much less was spent on integration measures in the first two months of the year than planned.

The trend continued in the following years: in 2014, for example, not only did administrative costs rise immensely, but there was also criticism that these requirements were also paid for with money that was actually intended to reintegrate the long-term unemployed into the labor market.

The employment agency estimated almost four billion euros for “work integration services” for 2013, but almost half a billion of this – 445 million euros – went not into the measures, but into administrative costs, as a small query from the Greens revealed.

2018 The sums grew even more: Peter Clever from the main management of the employers' association BDA and Annelie Buntenbach from the DGB federal executive board expected that the redeployment amount would grow to one billion.

A total of 2.6 billion euros have flowed into administration over the last six years - money that was actually intended to help the unemployed.

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The job centers' actions are legal and make sense

According to the law, the budgets for integration measures and administrative costs can cover each other, and that is also the purpose:
This means that the employment agency can choose for itself whether to invest more money in appropriate measures for the long-term unemployed or to rely on more intensive support.

The trend in recent years shows that, depending on the location, more emphasis is placed on care, correspondingly more staff are required and, as a result, administrative costs also rise. This also benefits the unemployed, who can get appointments more quickly and don't have to wait in line any longer.

In addition, more intensive support also offers greater opportunities for the job market: instead of being processed quickly by the respective employee, cases can be dealt with more individually: measures can then be better planned (instead of putting an unemployed person into a pointless measure), career prospects , personal knowledge and opportunities can be better combined.

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Conclusion

Yes, the job centers actually shift money from the unemployment budget into administration. However, this is legal and with justification: through more intensive support for the unemployed, which requires more staff, the chances of finding a job for the unemployed are greater than through even more measures.

Article image: Shutterstock / By nitpicker

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