Recipients of unemployment benefits must prove their need - because the mere fact that they may have paid into the system once and are now unemployed is not sufficient.
The State Secretary in the Bavarian Ministry of Social Affairs, Jürgen Heike, supported Clever's initiative. "Those who want benefits from the state should prove that they are entitled to them," Heike said in "Focus". This would have the side effect that obtaining payments through false statements would constitute fraud. "These people can then be sentenced to repay the money and pay a fine," he said. Those who have no money must "expect to serve a prison sentence".
Exactly. Throw them in jail. Or put them on the pillory, as the Bild newspaper likes to suggest from time to time. What kind of perverse society are we supposed to live in?
How is a recipient of unemployment benefits supposed to pay for the lawyer they will soon need to assert their claims?