And groundhog says hello every day: the Federal Ministry of Education and Research keeps saying that the one-off energy price flat rate of 200 euros for students should finally come. The only thing you hear tolerably little about is that money is finally being paid out. There was a new push on Tuesday: The information website www.einmalzahlen200.de, on which students can register, was activated; from Wednesday they should also be able to contact a hotline.
We know that young people are waiting for the money.
Bettina Stark ZimmermannFederal Minister of Education.
3.5 million students are entitled to the money, and they have been expressing their impatience on social media for months. “We know that young people are waiting for the money,” said Federal Education Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger (FDP) at the start of an information campaign in Berlin. The federal government set up the platform together with Saxony-Anhalt and thus did its homework, said the minister, now it’s the federal states’ turn.
Saxony-Anhalt should start paying out in the ninth calendar week and thus be the pilot of the federal states. When will the other countries follow? That’s still up in the air.
3.5
millions young people in Germany are entitled to the flat-rate energy cost allowance.
She understands the impatience of students and technical students, said the education policy spokeswoman for the FDP, Ria Schröder, to the Tagesspiegel and also shoots at the federal states: “Why do the federal states then want to wait for the last prime minister before the young people get the money , doesn’t make sense to me at all.” It’s bad enough that students in the slowing countries have to wait, “but it can’t be that everyone is being forced to twiddle their thumbs until mid-March.”
The opposition sees the mistake in the minister: she puts one interim report after the next, said Thomas Jarzombek, spokesman for education policy for the Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag, the Tagesspiegel. “It’s just bitter and frustrating for everyone who is desperately waiting for the money. The young generation is obviously not a priority for Federal Education Minister Stark-Watzinger.”
The whole project is a tragic example of “why is it simple when it can be complicated,” said Nicole Gohlke, deputy chairwoman of the Left Party parliamentary group, to the Tagesspiegel. “It’s scandalous how you can leave the students who had to spend every euro before the energy crisis on their own.” Gohlke is also annoyed by the amount of the lump sum. “Students wait months without a reliable schedule for a one-off payment, which for many will only cover the additional costs of one or two months.”
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