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Government Puts BAföG Hike Under Financing Reserve as Coalition Frays

Financing doubts leave the planned student housing allowance increase uncertain while a reform package is scheduled for cabinet by the end of July.

Sassa Confirms June Grant Dates With SRD Funded Through March 2027

France’s Planning Office Backs Longer Paid Leave and Guaranteed Childcare to Confront Birth Slump

ECC Approves Rs19 Billion Release for Ramazan Relief Package

CDU Business Wing Demands Recovery Plan for Billions in Unpaid Welfare Claims

Spain’s Gender-Gap Pension Supplement Now Mostly Goes to Fathers

France Sets December Bill for Single Social Benefit Combining RSA, Housing Aid and Work Bonus

INSS Begins October Benefit Payments for Minimum-Wage Recipients

Peru Approves Fonavi List 22 Payout for December, Prioritizing Unpaid Contributors

Aragón High Court Upholds Denial of Widow’s Pension to Long-Term Partner Not Registered as Pareja de Hecho

Study Maps Where Work Pays More Than Bürgergeld as Rents Narrow the Gap

Germany Debates Tougher Bürgergeld Sanctions as Full Cuts Prove Unworkable

Hamburg Plans to Broaden Bezahlkarte Use Beyond Refugees

Catalan Parliament Registers Bill to Bar Recovery of Mispaid Social Aid

French Officials Convene at Bercy to Chart Path Toward Closing €24.8 Billion Social Security Deficit

House GOP Advances Tax Bill Featuring $1,000 MAGA Accounts for Newborns

CFDT Pushes for Key Revisions to France's Pension Reform