2024-04-26 17:54:07
The payment card for asylum seekers can come. The aim should be to ensure that less money can be transferred abroad.
The payment card for asylum seekers, which has long been controversial in the traffic light coalition, was passed by the Federal Council without much debate. The federal regulation on such cards is actually superfluous because the states could have introduced the payment cards without them, said Thuringia’s Migration Minister Doreen Denstädt (Greens) on Friday in Berlin.
Since the regulation that has now been found for the means of payment has been designed in such a way that the social and cultural participation of refugees remains guaranteed, there is nothing that speaks against approving the draft. Several states had asked the federal government to create a legal framework for payment cards.
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In the future, asylum seekers should receive part of the state’s living expenses as credit on the card and fewer cash payments. Among other things, this is intended to prevent migrants from transferring money to smugglers or family and friends abroad.
The countries can then decide for themselves whether they actually introduce the card and how they plan to use it. In recent months, politicians from the Green Party in particular have called for the draft law to be formulated in such a way that a significant restriction on the rights of refugees in individual regions is ruled out.