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Apply for a spot in the day care center

Everyone who wishes to enroll their children in a day care center or nursery school in Tübingen must do so until the end of February 2021. The day care center years starts in September. The date until which parents have to accept the spot is provided in the acceptance letter. Detailed information about child day care in Tübingen (https://www.tuebingen.de/158.html) and the application procedures (www.tübingen.de/23418.html) are available on the internet. There, it is also possible to apply for a public or private childcare spot online or to download the application forms as paper. The Zentrale Anmeldestelle Kinderbetreuung (Central Application Office for… Read More

Ban on plastic bags

From January 1st, 2022, plastic shopping bags will no longer be allowed to be offered in shops throughout Germany. More specifically the ban is on the light plastic carrier bags with a thickness between 15 and 50 micrometer. These are the standard bags that you used to get when you went shopping. Particularly sturdy reusable bags and the thin plastic bags found at fruit and vegetable stands are excluded from the ban. Why aren’t these bags banned as well? The federal government fears that manufacturers will then start packaging more products in plastic again. https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktuelles/dunne-plastiktueten-verboten-1688818 tun22010404 Ab dem 1. Januar… Read More

Those tested are allowed to shop again

The 3G rule is back in force in the retail sector. This means that apart from vaccinated and recovered people, anyone with a current negative Corona test can shop in retail shops such as clothing shops again as of Tuesday, 25 January. This was decided by the Administrative Court of Baden-Württemberg in Mannheim. The government announced that it would amend the Corona Ordinance accordingly this week. The detailed reasoning of the court can be found under the link https://verwaltungsgerichtshof-baden-wuerttemberg.justiz-bw.de/pb/,Lde/Startseite/Medien/_Einfrieren+der+Alarmstufe+II_+fuer+den+Einzelhandel+rechtswidrig/?LISTPAGE=1213200 tun22012501 In der Tübinger Fußgängerzone. Foto: tünews INTERNATIONAL / Mostafa Elyasian. Aktuelle Informationen zu Corona: Hier klicken

Country relaxes rules for quarantine

Even convalescents with at least one vaccination against the Corona virus no longer have to be quarantined as contacts. This regulation applies from Wednesday, 26 January. The Ministry of Health of Baden-Württemberg has adapted the regulations on quarantine in the Corona Ordinance to the recommendations of the Robert Koch Institute. The following household members and contact persons no longer have to be quarantined: All those who have been vaccinated twice against the Corona virus and whose second vaccination was not less than 15 days and not more than 90 days ago, Those who have recovered and whose PCR evidence of… Read More

One insurance for many legal cases

Legal disputes rapidly cost a lot of money. Legal expenses insurance supports insured persons in enforcing their claims. “It covers litigation costs up to agreed sum insured” according to the consumer advice centre. However, there are waiting periods. In most cases, the reason for a legal dispute may not lie until three months after the start of the contract. For whom is legal expenses insurance important? The consumer centre recommends, for example car drivers and tenants to consider whether legal expenses insurance makes sense for them personally and which one. And it advises checking the insurance conditions carefully – ideally… Read More

More rights for customers with internet contracts

The amended law for internet, telephone and mobile phone contracts has been in effect since December 1, 2021. These rules also apply to older contracts and the most important rules are: The phone provider must summarize the contracts in writing before a contract is signed. If a contract was concluded on the phone without this summary, it does not apply until customers have approved the summary. Contracts can continue for a period of 24 months. If the contract is automatically extended, customers can cancel it within one month. If the provider does not adhere to the terms of the contract,… Read More

Deutsche Post has increased postage

Anyone sending a postcard or letter has to pay more since January 1, 2022. Deutsche Post charges 85 cents for a standard letter. Previously, it cost 80 cents. Consumers have to pay one euro for compact letters – five cents more than before. Postcards are even 10 cents more expensive. They now cost 70 cents instead of 60 cents. Detailed information about the new postage rates can be found under the link www.deutschepost.de/content/dam/dpag/images/A_a/aenderungen/dp-preisanpassungen-ab-1-1-2022.pdf tun22010401 Briefkasten der Deutschen Post. Foto: tünews INTERNATIONAL / Mostafa Elyasian. Latest information on Corona: Click here  

Starting January 10th, more tests in schools

During the Christmas vacations, more students may have contracted the highly contagious Omicron virus – on vacation or at family gatherings. That’s why there will be more Corona tests in Baden-Württemberg after schools reopen on January 10th. Students are to take a quick test every day during the first week of school, starting Monday. This is stated in a letter from the Ministry of Education. Exceptions will be made for all students and teachers who have already received a booster vaccination. They do not have to get tested. Also, people who have recovered and have been vaccinated at least once… Read More

In 2022, the minimum wage will be increased in several steps

In 2022, the minimum wage will be increased twice. As from January 1, the minimum wage will be increased from 9.60 to 9.82 euros per hour. In July 2022, the minimum wage will rise again from 9.82 to 10.45 euros. In addition, the new federal government plans to raise the minimum wage to 12 euros per hour. As the responsible Federal Minister of Labor, Hubertus Heil, told the media a few days ago, a draft law is to be presented as early as the beginning of 2022. tun21121405 Geldscheine. Foto: tünews INTERNATIONAL / Mostafa Elyasian. Latest information on Corona: Click… Read More

Social benefits will be increased in 2022

From January 2022, job center benefits such as social assistance or unemployment benefit II (Arbeitslosengeld II) will increase. This is what the federal government writes on its website. Single adults in Germany will then receive 449 instead of 446 euros. Couples will receive 404 instead of 401 euros per person. For children up to 5 years of age, legal guardians will receive 285 euros (previously 283), for children between 6 and 13 years 311 instead of 309 euros, for young people between 14 and 17 years they will receive 376 euros (previously 373). Young adults between the ages of 18… Read More

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