Germany limits cash benefit payments for asylum-seekers

Thomas Dreiling, who runs a local asylum shelter poses for a photo in a migrant shelter in Eichsfeld, Germany, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. Across Germany, cities and counties are introducing new payment cards for asylum-seekers. The new rule, which was passed by parliament last month, calls for the migrants to receive their benefits on a card that can be used for payments in local shops and services.

“With half the money that is on the card, I can buy groceries, and with the other half I can buy in every shop whatever I need for me and my children," Laca said. They say people fleeing war and persecution won't be deterred from coming to Germany just because their benefits will no longer be paid out in cash only. Instead, they claim that the payment cards will single out migrants and may possibly add to them being ostracized further.

Attitudes toward migration have hardened in Germany as large numbers of asylum-seekers have arrived, in addition to refugees from Ukraine, and local authorities have struggled to find accommodation. Eichsfeld, where Luca and her family live while their asylum plea is being processed, was one of the first counties to introduce the plastic payment cards, which look similar to ATM or credit cards. The small town started handing them out to asylum-seekers in December.

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