Luxembourg's family-benefit bill would add €45 a month per child from January 2027 and a further €15 for those aged 12 and over. Its full annual cost is projected to exceed €200 million.
Amnesty International Luxembourg, Innocence en Danger and La Voix des Survivant·e·s are pressing for an urgent overhaul of child protection. Their demonstration comes as three reform bills remain under consideration.
Germany's pension commission has recommended linking the retirement age to life expectancy from 2031 and adding a funded investment pillar, in the most far-reaching overhaul of the country's state pension in a generation. Chancellor Friedrich Merz has vowed to implement it in full, even as unions and the opposition revolt.
Opposition LSAP deputies Claire Delcourt and Claude Haagen have tabled a bill in the Chamber of Deputies to give a permanent legal basis to Luxembourg's Universal Health Coverage scheme (CUSS), which lets people excluded from standard insurance be treated at the state's expense. The party says the pilot has reached its administrative limits after five years and that the roughly 2.3 million euros a year it would cost is already in budget projections.
Minimum-wage workers in Luxembourg are increasingly seeking help because private rents and landlord screening leave single-parent households with few realistic options. Housing Minister Claude Meisch says rent-subsidy awareness, more automatic aid and additional state purchases are now part of the response.
Luxembourg’s National Centre for Victims of Violence is now reachable 24/7 at 20 60 10 60.
A new UNICEF report again puts Luxembourg’s child poverty problem in focus: around one child in four is considered poor or at risk, even in one of Europe’s richest countries.
On 10 May 2026 the city of Dudelange and the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) presented the city's first Observatoire social, mapping income, poverty risk and housing pressure quartier by quartier. The data confirm pronounced inequalities between districts of Luxembourg's fourth-largest commune.
Luxembourg's official 2026 social minimum wage is currently EUR 2,703.74 gross monthly for an unqualified adult and EUR 3,244.48 for a qualified adult, at index 968.04. A further tranche is forecast for June 2026 but is not yet confirmed as effective.