Скачать или смотреть Germany limits cash benefit payments for asylum-seekers, critics say it's designed to curb migration

(13 May 2024)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Leinefeld-Worbis, Germany - 24 April 2024
1. Erinda Laca, asylum seeker, entering supermarket with her husband
2. Erinda Laca picking up shopping basket
3. Erinda Laca with her husband
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Erinda Laca, asylum seeker:
"They are half money and half cash. With half money that are in the card I can buy groceries and with the other half I can buy in every shop, whatever I need for me and my children."
5. Various of Erinda Laca grocery shopping
6. SOUNDBITE (German) Thomas Dreiling, Head of shared accommodation centre for refugees:
“The law allowed us to introduce a benefits-in-kind card, which of course doesn’t make people happy. We were already aware that they weren’t going to throw their arms around our necks and say that they were looking forward to this card. We just want to give them a bit of a push. You have to slowly learn that when you come to Germany, you have to take responsibility for your own lives. We’re making it a bit more difficult for you now, but we also have a solution. You are able to work.”
7. Various of Erinda Laca at home

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Berlin - 28 March 2024
8. SOUNDBITE (German) Wiebke Judith, Pro Asyl legal policy spokeswoman:
“The whole debate about this card was started with very clear motives, by the German state governors. They want to deter people. And it has to be said quite clearly: People are coming because of civil war and persecution, they won’t be put off by a payment card.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Leinefeld-Worbis, Germany - 24 April 2024
9. Various of Jihad Ammuri, asylum seeker, grocery shopping
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jihad Ammuri, asylum seeker:
"I tried to buy in a shop and they said that this card is not our partner. You can't buy from here. And it's also not working in all of Germany. But the card, for me, it's not a problem because I didn't came to Germany to buy something."
11. Jihad Ammuri at home with his mother
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jamileh Saqer, asylum seeker:
"Anyway. We don't care too much about money. We care about safety. About a quiet, peaceful life. For me and for my son. After what we had in the war."
13. Jamileh Saqer waving from her window

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