Social reform
SPD district councilors demand: Citizens’ money for refugees only on pump!
A large part of the citizens’ allowance goes to refugees and foreigners. Two Thuringian SPD district councilors only want to pay social benefits as loans to many of them.
Social benefits only on pump: In the future, this rule should apply to all adult asylum seekers, recognized refugees and foreigners from non-EU countries. This is what the two Thuringian district councilors Matthias Jendricke and Marko Wolfram demand. What makes the proposal particularly radical: Both are members of the SPD.
“We finally need a real will to reform in Berlin politics and no dust around an increasingly dysfunctional system,” said the Nordhäus district administrator Matthias Jendricke star. “Anyone who comes into our country and has not paid anything here can only get social benefits as a interest -free loan.”
According to Jendricke, the loan should work, similar to the BAföG for students: If you quickly take up work subject to social security contributions, you would only have to repay part of the services received. In addition, discounts should be granted in the event of rapid repayments.
Citizens’ money like Bafög
It is about motivating migrants to take a quick job, explained Marko Wolfram. He is a district administrator of the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district. “This would result in a positive incentive to integrate quickly,” he said. At the same time, one also acts towards migrants. “It is important, we need pressure in the system,” said Jendricke.
The expenses for the citizens’ benefit amounted to 46.9 billion euros in 2024. Around 47 percent of the almost four million recipients are foreign citizens. The proportion of refugees is around 30 percent.
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The largest recipient group is the 1.2 million war refugees from Ukraine. Only about a third of them work. As a result, 693,000 Ukrainians receive citizens’ money, although 497,000 of them are at least partially employable. Around 6.3 billion euros went to them alone.
The standard rate for single citizens’ places is 563 euros per month. There are also rent and heating costs. Services to asylum seekers are usually lower. Here the gross expenses were included in 2023.
The black and red coalition plans a reform of the Citizens’ allowance. Harder sanctions are discussed, a stricter handling of the so -called protective assets and reduction in additional services. In addition, there are demands to end the exemption for Ukrainian refugees and no longer immediately grant them citizens’ allowance. However Brakes Federal Minister of Labor and SPD boss Bärbel Bas again and again.
The two SPD district councilors also emphasize that they did not generally want to shorten or even refuse social benefits. Services for minors should not have to be repaid. “We are only concerned with the To increase the will to integrate of new migrants “, said Wolfram. The repayment should be handled accordingly.
Repayment bonus for school leaving certificate
According to Jendricke, refugees should be given half of the loansif they switched to work within one year and passed a language test. “The successful school leaving certificate of children could also be rewarded with a repayment bonus for the parents,” he said.
The district council’s proposal is constitutionally on uncertain soil. The Federal Constitutional Court decided about 2022 that from Article 1, Paragraph 1 of the Basic Law (“Human dignity is inviolable”) should be derived. This corresponds to all people living in Germany “a claim to benefit in receiving material support in the event of need”.
The opposition AfD has made the largest demands so far. She wants an “activating basic security” to only be paid to foreigners if it is at least ten years can prove employment subject to social security contributions. In addition, the service should be paid for a maximum of one year.
Source: Stern
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