Payment card: Federal regulation is coming, design unclear. Part of state benefits for asylum seekers will in future be provided as credit on this payment card.
Pilot test will start in Bavaria in March, initially in the three districts of Fürstenfeldbruck, Günzburg and Traunstein. Magdeburg wants to do a test run with 1,000 payment cards. The card is intended to prevent asylum seekers from transferring money to smugglers or to their family or friends abroad.