The German government should create a 5.4 billion-euro ($5.40 billion) emergency relief package to cushion the blow of rising living costs on low-income households, a study said on Wednesday.
Food, housing and energy make up nearly two-thirds of consumption for households in the bottom 20% of income levels, while that figure is only 44.1% for households in the top 20%, said the study from the DIW economic research institute and the charitable group of the Protestant church, Diakonie Deutschland.
