Coalition leaders agree on new relief

The coalition partners had actually set the goal of announcing an agreement as early as Saturday.

Coalition leaders agree on new relief

The coalition partners had actually set the goal of announcing an agreement as early as Saturday. A whole bundle of measures is expected with which the coalition wants to react to the sharp rise in energy and living costs. Direct payments for people with low incomes and in particular for pensioners and students, tax relief and a successor regulation for the nine-euro ticket in local transport were under discussion.

It would be the third relief package this year. In addition to the nine-euro ticket, the two previous packages also included the fuel discount that expired at the end of August, a one-off bonus for child benefit and a flat-rate energy price. The previous packages had a total volume of a good 30 billion euros.

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