The number of employable recipients of citizen's benefit is increasing and increasing. There are now 4,021,000, almost 200,000 more than when citizens' money started at the beginning of 2023 and 82,000 more than in May last year. If you also include the recipients of citizens' benefit who are unable to work , then there are almost 5.5 million. The so-called job turbo for Ukrainian refugees announced by SPD Social Minister Hubertus Heil is also not working and is rather a non-starter. Only 25% work, the majority receive citizen's benefit. This is being discussed a lot in the Bundestag , especially on the left, for us. The costs for citizens’ money are really exploding. Is the government finally taking action against it? So far it has not appeared as if Hubertus Heil is willing to change or reduce anything in his prestigious citizen's money project. Despite all the criticism of the last few months, not least from Alexander Dobrindt, CSU, regional group leader, who demanded that Ukrainian refugees should not receive citizen's money directly. But now we hear that there is information that is said to have leaked from the budget planning for next year. And they show that there is probably a reduction planned for citizens' money and job centers amounting to 2.6 billion euros. This emerges from a letter from the state working group and the federal employment network, which sharply criticize this because they say it particularly disadvantages the long-term unemployed. Specifically, it is planned to save around 900 million euros in further training and professional development and a further 1.6 billion euros in the administrative budgets of job centers. Hubertus Heil shows us how to do it. Savings and compromises can be found. But it must also be said that his budget is the largest in the federal budget, this year 2024 at 175 billion euros. Next year it will probably be the biggest too. And then a saving of 2.6 billion euros no longer seems that big. But it is a start. And something like that could add up if the other ministers and the other ministries are also prepared to make such compromises. But it doesn't look like that at the moment and so things will be quite interesting in the next few days.