March 2023

Care: Care home residents should check their entitlement to housing benefit

In addition to people in need of care who are cared for at home, nursing home residents can also apply for housing benefit. The NRW consumer advice center points this out. Many people are not aware of this. However, if nursing home residents wish to apply for housing benefit, they must observe special regulations. For example, the entitlement to housing benefit is not based on the individual rent amount, but on the...

Study: Fewer and fewer Germans can afford to buy their own home

The Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW Köln) has found out more about the "New challenges for home ownership" on behalf of Deutsche Reihenhaus AG. One of the findings of the study was that fewer and fewer Germans are able to afford home ownership. While a couple with a net income of 3,730 euros (median income household) was able to afford...

Science: Researchers develop optimized medium manganese steels

A new design strategy for processing medium manganese steel with improved properties has now been developed by a research team, mainly from China's Northeastern University and the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research (MPIE) in Düsseldorf. During development, the research team took into account the fact that steels now not only have to be sustainable, strong and formable, but...

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