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  "path": "/2026/05/30/640761-merz-party-sell-property-elderly-care/",
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  "textContent": "A senior CDU lawmaker says homeowners should use housing wealth before receiving state-funded nursing-home support A senior lawmaker from Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU has proposed requiring Germans to use their homes to pay for elderly care, triggering a political row over social welfare amid the country’s mounting fiscal pressures. The proposal by Albert Stegemann, deputy […]",
  "title": "Merz’s party wants elderly Germans to sell homes to pay for care"
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