Dispute over nationwide payment card for asylum seekers settled. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and the state prime ministers recently agreed on the introduction of a payment card instead of cash payments.
The payment card is intended to prevent money from being transferred abroad. The German Press Agency learned from government circles that a corresponding formulation aid from the Federal Ministry of Labor should be decided by the cabinet tomorrow in a circulation procedure. Recently there were concerns among the Greens, now said: “The payment card makes sense to preventMoney from being transfer abroad”