The one-time payment of 200 euros that students are to receive as part of the relief package will probably not be paid out until the beginning of January.

This emerges from an internal paper from the coalition committee that was available to the AFP news agency on Friday.

The exact modalities of the payment depend on the result of the forthcoming federal-state consultations, it is said in a response from the Federal Ministry of Education to a parliamentary question by CSU MP Katrin Staffler.

First, the "Spiegel" had reported on the delay.

"The federal government has so far left students completely out in the rain in the current crisis," said Staffler.

First she forgot the students in the energy price flat rate.

"Now the payment of the 200 euro subsidy is in danger of failing due to the lack of planning on the part of Federal Education Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger."

"Federal government willfully sends students into unemployment"

This "still cannot say how the one-off payment should arrive in the students' accounts," criticized Staffler.

The students had to have the 200-euro subsidy in their account by October 14 at the latest, she demanded.

The left criticized the delays.

"Nobody should be surprised if we have a wave of university dropouts this winter because they can no longer afford their apartment," explained Nicole Gohlke, member of the Bundestag.

"The federal government willfully sends students into unemployment if they don't help quickly and easily."

The Ring of Christian Democratic Students (RCDS) also called for the aid to be transferred quickly and without bureaucracy.

The Federal Government is required to support students in such emergencies in a targeted manner, said Federal Chairwoman Franca Bauernfeind.

"Even the question of payment shows the federal government's lack of a concept."

RCDS Vice Jonas Neuhoff added that nothing would come of the "quick and unbureaucratic payment" that the federal government had promised.

“Price increases will continue for the foreseeable future.

It is therefore imperative to think beyond the promised one-off payment.”