“Germany is expected to cancel Burgergeld payments for newly arrived refugees.”, – WRITE: www.unian.ua
Germany is expected to cancel Burgergeld payments for newly arrived refugees.
Zeder believes that help interferes with the integration of Ukrainians in the labor market / UNIAN collage, photos of ua.depositphotos.comVicecanzler and German Finance Minister Lars Klingbail does not support the proposal of the Bavarian Conservative Party of the Christian Social Union (CSU) Marcus Zeder to cancel social payments known as Burgergeld to all Ukrainian refugees. About it reports Spiegel.
“Some of the proposals that have been made in my opinion, in my opinion, do not contribute to the coalition moving forward together,” he said in his visit to US Finance Minister Scott Bessent.
At the same time, he added that the Coalition Agreement clearly stipulates that newcomers from Ukraine should no longer receive this type of state aid, and, according to Klingbail, “it will be implemented as soon as possible.”
“I consider it the right solution,” he said.
The idea of canceling Burgergeld’s assistance to all refugees from Ukraine is also criticized by the Parliamentary Secretary of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) Dirk Visa.
“Obviously, some debate participants hope that the abolition of assistance to citizens from Ukraine will bring a lot of savings to the state budget. However, it does not take into account that this will cause significant additional administrative expenses, especially for municipalities, which actually offset the savings. It will be solely the principle of” from the right pocket. ”
Recently, Bavaria Prime Minister and Party leader of the CSS Marcus Zeder proposed to stop paying state aid under the Burgergeld program to all Ukrainian refugees located in Germany.
“There is no country in the world that would also do about Ukrainian refugees,” he said.
The politician added that state aid payments interfere with the refugees integrate into the labor market.
Thus, refugees from Ukraine are offered to leave only the payments provided for asylum seekers (usually they are lower than Burgergeld social assistance).
Recall that the coalition agreement of the ruling in Germany Christian-Democratic Union (CDU), CSU and the Social Democratic Party assumes that anyone who enters our country after April 1, 2025 (as well as refugees from other countries) will receive only payments to the notes.
Ukrainian Refugees in Europe is the latest newsFrom the beginning of the war, more than 304 thousand Ukrainians of conscript age arrived in Germany. Half of them were registered as recipients.
As of March 2025, the average amount of assistance was 882 euros per month. Thus, in general, Ukrainians of conscript age receive from Germany 1.328 billion euros a year (it is a matter of monetary payments and government expenditures for housing and additional needs).
Germany is not the only country in which Ukrainian refugees have been faced with difficulties lately. Earlier it became known that in the Netherlands, Ukrainian refugees will be forced to pay twice as much for living in a state shelter.
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