CDU domestic politician Alexander Throm advocates a different procedure for caring for refugees from Ukraine.
The Union parliamentary group’s domestic policy spokesman, Alexander Throm, has spoken out in favor of ending the payment of citizen’s benefit to newly arrived refugees from Ukraine.
“The fact that the war refugees from Ukraine would all immediately receive citizen’s money was well-intentioned by everyone involved when it was decided,” said the CDU member of the Bundestag to the German Press Agency. However, the decision proved to be counterproductive in terms of the willingness to take up work.
The requirement
Throm advocated “that things be done differently there in the future, so that the Ukraine refugees, who do not have to apply for asylum, are first provided for in accordance with the Asylum Seekers’ Benefits Act.” The German District Association had already raised this demand in October – before the debate about the budget and possible savings triggered by a ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court began.
The CDU politician reiterated that the EU’s so-called mass influx directive applies to the admission of people from Ukraine to the European Union, which makes it unnecessary to request protection from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees. The EU should stick to this too.
Many children and young people
After the Russian war of aggression began in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the war refugees from there were initially cared for in Germany in accordance with the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act. Since June 1, 2022, they have been integrated into the basic security according to the Social Security Code II (formerly Hartz IV, now citizens’ benefit) and therefore receive higher benefits.
According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, there are currently around 1.1 million people living in Germany who came from Ukraine in connection with the war. Around 350,000 of them are children and young people under the age of 18. Around two thirds of the adult refugees are women.
Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) reported in November that 140,000 people from the country had found work in Germany since the outbreak of war in Ukraine. “That’s a start, but it’s not nearly enough for me,” said Heil. In total, there are 400,000 refugees who have completed their integration course or are about to do so and are then available for the job market – around half of them from Ukraine.
Source: Stern
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