Because I looked into it, there are many places you can get your informations plus as I said one of my Friends is taking advantage of this system for a long time now.
At the Time when I was jobless I didn't get Hartz4 which is "ALG2" but I got "ALG1" till my new job started and the Job Center actually informed me of a lot of stuff as well
Yeah sounds good but how is it fair that working 40h a week earns you a very similiar ammount as not working at all ?
People like me friend who tell me that he doesn't even search for a Job anymore and would only take a very good paid job are making me angry but than again I can understand why, and the problem is that people have it way to easy here.
The Government needs to change stuff like this.
We have 2 million jobless but than again several hundred thousands of jobs where they don't find anyone who wants to do it ! Question is why ?
One point might be bad salary but another thing is that the people don't want to work 40hours a week to get maybe 100€ more each month than what they would get when slacking off plus you need to pay so much stuff yourself that in the worst case you even go into minus with working.
A good example, my dad who worked for 47 years and paid for the same ammount of time lots of taxes needed a new denture? (correct word?) and he had to pay 3000€ himself !! to earn that ammount of money even with his rather good slary he had to save up as much as he could for at least 6 month while a jobless gets it completely paid!!! so even if you have a job that gives you 100-200€ more than Hartz4 you would need to pay stuff like this and with bad salary you would need to save years to get this ammount of money. (same thing if something in your flat brakes like the fridge for 200€ or the oven or whatever ... slackers get it free and workers get into minus balance)