Bundeshaushalt: Studie: 60 Prozent der geplanten Sozialkürzungen treffen Frauen
Die schwarz-rote Bundesregierung muss im Bundeshaushalt 2027 eine Lücke von über 20 Milliarden Euro schließen. Ökonomen haben nun die Folgen der Kürzungspolitik für Frauen beziffert.
Berlin. Just before the final meeting of the Bundestag's Budget Committee ahead of the 2027 budget, a new study from the think tank Dezernat Zukunft – Institute for Macroeconomics warns that 60 percent of the planned social cuts affect women. The study examined anticipated reductions in housing benefits, kindergartens, immediate child benefits in the basic income, child maintenance advances, care and statutory health insurance.
Therefore, out of the total cuts amounting to 8.4 billion euros, about five billion euros are on benefits that primarily benefit women. The study titled "Consolidation at the Expense of Women" was presented in Berlin on Monday. The order for the analysis came from the German Women's Council, Germany's largest women's interest group.
The budget committee meeting, where the final changes to the federal government's draft budget are to be decided, is scheduled for Thursday. Study author Philippa Sigl-Glöckner, Director of Dezernat Zukunft, said, "We focused only on cuts that are already so concrete that they can be precisely quantified." There are still more cuts, so the result "is even more restrained."
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