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Home lessons are challenging for the whole family.
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Due to the reopening of kindergartens and schools, an extension of compensation payments is not necessary, according to the Federal Ministry of Labor. Linke and DGB are calling for the deadline to be extended until regular care is available again.
reThe federal government does not currently plan to extend continued payment of wages to parents unable to go to work because of childcare in the Corona crisis. At the request of the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”, a spokeswoman for the Federal Ministry of Labor noted that kindergartens and schools were reopening. Therefore, “there will be no extension of regulation as of today.”
Parents can receive up to 67 percent of their state wages if they have to care for children under the age of 12 during the pandemic due to closed daycares and schools in the home, and therefore lose income. The benefit is limited to 2016 euros for a full month and so far has been paid for a maximum of six weeks. Times when the daycare or school would be closed for vacation anyway are not counted.
The leader of the left faction, Dietmar Bartsch, called it a “scandal of how the federal government deals with parents who have to go without child care.” Children, women and especially single parents would lose the Corona crisis, Bartsch told the newspaper. He called on Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) to “extend the six-week period without bureaucracy until there are regular operations in primary schools and kindergartens.”
Anja Piel, a DGB board member, also called for improvements. In view of the emergency operation in day care centers and the limited number of schools, many families are “further aggravated by livelihoods and inattention.”
