Aren't you generous :-) Methinks the whole point of the reform was to have an excuse to reduce overall social spending.

adults receive just € 359, children an arbitrary fraction of the same.

That about children is the main problem, in therms of unconstitutional rough estimates. The typical impoverished-by-Harz-IV examples I read of over the past years were parents.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}