Citizens' allowance and federal election: more hardness or more help?

Das a project of the citizens' benefit had started so hopefully. For years, social associations, unemployment initiatives, politicians from the ranks of the SPD, the Greens and the left criticized the hardness of the Hartz IV system. After the election in autumn four years ago, the traffic light partners promised the big reform: long -term unemployed should be less punished and more encouraged. The state, in the form of the intermediary in the job center, should grant an advance of trust. A new name was also needed: citizens' money.