There is a new plan for social help. Social minister Korinna Schumann makes the plan. The poverty group reads the plan. They do not like the plan.
Expert Martin Schenk criticizes the text. The plan lacks a clear goal. The goal must fight poverty. Social help must give people a good life. It must secure the minimum living cost.
A big point of fight is goods support. This means people get things. People do not get money. They get food boxes. Schenk warns against this step. He calls this a bad step.
People need money for freedom. With money people decide on their own. Goods support takes freedom away. Schenk separates goods support from service support.
Service support is important for help. This includes child care or care help. These helps add to money support. This works best.
Schenk also criticizes some states. In Upper Austria numbers of social help fall. But the need of people grows. There is much no work and high prices. He demands true help for all in need.
