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Controversial: the payment card for refugees.
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When introducing the payment card for asylum seekers, the Fürstenfeldbruck district will be a model municipality.
This has concrete consequences.
Fürstenfeldbruck - According to the plans of Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU), the payment card should be introduced across the board in the Free State by summer.
This is what the dpa reports.
Cash withdrawals should be limited to the legally required minimum.
Four model municipalities - the city of Straubing and the districts of Günzburg, Fürstenfeldbruck and Traunstein - are scheduled to try out the planned payment card as early as March.
According to the ministry, the contract for this contract should be awarded by the end of February if possible.
Special route
Bavaria continues to use a special route for the planned payment card for refugees, despite an agreement from 14 other federal states.
“While the joint tender by the other federal states has not even started yet, we are already in the middle of the award process,” Sandro Kirchner (CSU), State Secretary in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior, is quoted as saying. In addition, “it is not certain that all participating federal states will then also be able to implement it limit cash payouts to the maximum, as Bavaria wants and will implement this.”
The Prime Minister of Hesse and Chairman of the Prime Minister's Conference, Boris Rhein (CDU), announced on Wednesday that 14 of 16 federal states had agreed on common standards for a procurement process.
The process should be completed by summer.
In addition to Bavaria, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania also relies on a special route.
No more transfers
The payment cards are intended, among other things, to deprive asylum seekers of the opportunity to transfer money from state support in Germany to relatives and friends in their country of origin.
The state prime ministers and Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) agreed on its introduction in November.
A federal-state working group then developed proposals for nationwide minimum standards.
In some municipalities, payment cards have already been introduced for refugees in pilot tests, with which they receive state benefits as credit, but no longer as cash - for example, since December 2023 in the Greiz district in Thuringia.
(dpa)
District Administrator Thomas Karmasin had already spoken out in favor of introducing the card some time ago.
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You can find even more current news from the Fürstenfeldbruck district at Merkur.de/Fürstenfeldbruck.