Overview
- The pact with the Claims Conference delivers the largest home-care allocation in the program’s history for 2026.
- Negotiators say the funding will allow all survivors now on home-care waitlists to begin receiving services.
- For the first time, non-Jewish “Righteous Rescuers” become eligible for home-care support through the Claims Conference.
- Annual Hardship Fund Supplemental payments are extended through 2028 at €1,450 per eligible survivor, affecting more than 127,000 people.
- Germany also earmarks about $205 million for Holocaust education through 2029 as survivor ages rise and full-time care needs nearly double since 2018.