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Shopping with a payment card: This is currently being tested in four model communities in Bavaria.
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The Unterallgäu district is not introducing its own payment card for refugees for the time being, but is waiting for the Bavaria-wide solution.
Unterallgäu - The district committee of the district council decided by a majority to postpone a corresponding application from the AfD parliamentary group, as the Free State is currently in the process of introducing a Bavaria-wide solution.
If the planned payment card system does not yet exist by the next meeting of the district committee in October, the committee will discuss it again.
The Unterallgäu district is currently waiting for a Bavaria-wide solution for the payment card for refugees - testing in four model communities
The federal and state governments decided last year that payment cards should be introduced in Germany.
In Bavaria, the payment card is now being tested in four model municipalities.
The new system is scheduled to be introduced across the Free State in the summer.
From the district administration's point of view, offering your own payment card at this point is not expedient - not even as an interim solution.
The resulting administrative burden would be disproportionate.
The AfD parliamentary group had requested that a payment card be introduced for refugees based on the model of the Greiz district (Thuringia).
There, the amount that refugees are entitled to under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act is placed on a card.
A part is paid out as pocket money.
The card can only be used for purchases and payments within the district; cash cannot be withdrawn or transferred.
From the AfD's point of view, this prevents abuse, such as paying smugglers, and offers less incentive for immigration.
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