As of: February 28, 2024, 4:07 p.m
By: Luke Rogalla
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The payment card for refugees is currently being introduced, but a member of the CDU wants to expand the concept now.
Berlin - While the SPD, Greens and FDP are arguing about legal regulations for payment cards for asylum seekers and refugees, a member of the Union is already pushing ahead.
Bundestag member Maximilian Mörseburg (CDU) is now calling for such a payment card to be extended to recipients of citizens' benefit - with the stated aim of exerting pressure so that these people accept a job.
Payment card for citizens’ benefit recipients?
CDU MP wants consequences for “total refusers”
“There is nothing that speaks against discussing the expansion of payment cards to recipients of citizens’ benefit,” the Stuttgart native told
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“Especially for the small group of total refusers, we have to find a solution that guarantees a humane minimum subsistence level, but at the same time makes it clear what is expected of the people who are currently unable to find work.”
Maximilian Mörseburg (CDU) brings into play the extension of the payment card to recipients of citizens' money.
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In practice, this would mean that millions of citizens' benefit recipients would no longer have their money transferred to their usual checking account.
Rather, the card is topped up with credit every month via a transfer from the social authorities to banks.
“The performance level of the payment card would remain the same as with citizen’s money,” emphasizes Mörseburg.
But “transfers abroad would no longer be possible”.
The restrictions that the payment card brings with it for asylum seekers and refugees remained similar.
Paying out cash is minimized; the countries decide on restrictions or additional functions for the payment card.
For “justice” in the social system: Mörseburg proposes expanding the payment card
With regard to the card for asylum seekers and refugees, Hesse's Prime Minister Boris Rhein (CDU) spoke of a "very important step".
The aim is to reduce “incentives for illegal migration to Germany”.
This would counteract abuse of state aid.
Critics, however, speak of a discriminatory measure that also means additional surveillance.
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Mörseburg had already indicated the expansion of the payment card concept at the Bundestag meeting on February 22nd.
“Perhaps it will even be so successful that we will soon discuss expanding the concept of benefits in kind through payment cards to other areas of the social system,” it said.
According to Mörseburg, the social system is “not designed to make you comfortable,” as he
continued to tell
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“There must also be justice for those who earn the money and sometimes hardly have any net left over.” (lrg)