German cops swarmed out this morning across a good bit of northwestern Germany. Focus, the German news magazine, tells part of the story.
For months, there's been suggestive comments of fake people getting social welfare in the northwest. Well....the cops gop up positions around Duisburg, Gelsenkirchen, Hagen and Essen today.
The comment made is that various people are taking unlawful receipt of social welfare. So the cops are there to examine each individual, their job, their social condition and the network around these people. Most of these are set to some mini-job deal (450 Euro max) and the government has to cover the rest of their monthly coverage. I'm taking a guess, but they are probably working longer hours more than the mini-job situation allows, but getting the full-scale deal when you add up the mini-job pay and the government-welfare....thus being a full-time asset instead of what the mini-job deal allows for.
The comment made in the news item (short in nature), there's a strong belief that the financial draw on this fake angle....is significant.
One curious piece of the story with limited commentary.....the suspicion that landlords are inflating the rent to lay claim on the social welfare system to pay more than the property is worth. It's an interesting topic, if proven true.
If arrests occur? That's the thing about this story.....you don't know if any arrests will occur, or if any real number of people are shown the front-door to leave. The suggestion here is that 6,000 individuals might be involved in the fraud. The question would be....if these folks leave....will this open up the door for unemployed Germans to apply and get work? It'd be an interesting angle if this is the final result in this one single region.
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