Press Public assistance expenditure up 4.8% in 2015

Press release No. 363 of 10 October 2016

WIESBADEN – In 2015, net expenditure on public assistance benefits according to the Social Code, Book XII (SGB XII on public assistance) amounted to 27.7 billion euros in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was a 4.8% increase on 2014.

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