Refugee about new payment card: “The main thing is that the discussions stop’. “After all, social benefits are not there for fun, they are there for secure livelihoods,” says Markus Söder.

Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner: A “milestone’ in the efforts to reduce incentives for irregular migration, says Lindner. ‘The level of social benefits has no demonstrable effect on migration,’ says Tim Müller from the Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research.