On the planned moratorium on sanctions in the BDA managing director Steffen Kampeter explains the new basic benefits for jobseekers:
Sanctions moratorium à la traffic light is another step towards the fully comprehensive state
Berlin, 13 April 2022: "We need an activating welfare state. This includes the principle of demanding and promoting in labour market policy. A moratorium on sanctions à la traffic light is a further step towards a fully comprehensive state that prefers to care for people and keep them in custody rather than activate them.
Thus, if the state does not care whether someone prefers a payment financed by the community to a reasonable job, the policy gets into an explanatory difficulty vis-à-vis the citizens. The sanctions moratorium is likely to call into question the legitimacy of a successful labour market policy.
Because this is a fatal signal to taxpayers and contributors. Active participation and compliance are just as much a part of the social market economy as support for the employees of the Federal Employment Agency so that they can also enforce the rules."