Overview

• Employment compliance challenges intensify as Pascal is fired during probation for calling in sick and Alexander admits to feigning depression and incompetence to retain benefits
• Sixteen-year-old Svenja plans to leave school after ten years and start a vocational apprenticeship with her parents’ full support
• Forty-nine-year-old Jannie prepares to emigrate to Iowa with her son despite needing to cover up to €70,000 annually for schooling, housing and living expenses
• Housing instability deepens as Monika remains homeless after the Sozialamt denies her hotel stay request and Petra’s family awaits her father’s compensation to clear €4,000 in rent arrears
• Twenty-year-old Jasmin has gone without Bürgergeld for two months after leaving a mother-child home and is awaiting a new Jobcenter application decision