 Allowances for retraining and advanced training and for refugees from East Germany were also increased, together with federal grants for sport.In addition, increases were made in the pensions of 2.5 million war victims.Following a sudden increase in the price of oil, a law was passed in December 1973 granting recipients of social assistance and housing allowances a single heating-oil allowance (a procedure repeated in the winter of 1979 during the Schmidt Administration).