Adult jobseekers living alone now received a default sum of €502 per month (plus standard rates for rent and energy), compared to previously €449.
The introduction of Bürgergeld also increased the amount of personal wealth that beneficiaries can hold without a part of their unemployment grant being deducted.
The Bürgergeld predecessor Hartz IV was introduced on 1 January 2005 by the Second Schröder cabinet, a coalition of the German Social Democrats and Greens.
[6][7]Beginning in 2022, labour minister Hubertus Heil (Social Democrats) developed the Bürgergeld proposal for the ruling traffic light coalition.
[14] Hugo Müller-Vogg commented that the industry was desperatly looking for workers, while the government made it more attractive for non-Germans in Germany to stay unemployed.