Greens give in: Traffic light comes to an agreement in the dispute over payment cards for asylum seekers. The agreement stipulates that every adult member of a household who is entitled to benefits should receive their own payment card.
The central question is whether asylum seekers who work, study or do training here and receive supportive state benefits should even receive a payment card, the Greens say. The SPD's domestic policy spokesman, Sebastian Hartmann, told the Tagesspiegel that the Green Ministry of Economic Affairs was blocking the proposed law "unfortunately for incomprehensible reasons"