Germany has decided not to cancel the payment of aid to Ukrainian refugees
About 260 thousand Ukrainian refugees live in Germany
The German government has rejected demands to pay 1.17 million Ukrainian refugees a less generous benefit for asylum seekers in Germany instead of civil aid (Bürgergeld).
The government has no plans to reduce payments to people who fled to Germany from Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine, German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said on Monday, 17 June, in Berlin, DW reports.
Earlier, a similar statement was made by Dominik Ehrenthraut, deputy spokesman for the German Ministry of Commerce. He also said that a specially created department of the Employment Centre for refugees from Ukraine would accelerate the integration of Ukrainians in the German labour market.
Earlier, the prime ministers of the federal states governed by representatives of the CDU/CSU opposition bloc, the executive secretary of the CDU faction in the Bundestag, Torsten Fry, and the secretary general of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), Bijan Jir-Saray, called for the cancellation of civilian aid payments to at least Ukrainian men of military age.
According to the German Interior Ministry, there are currently about 260,000 Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 living in Germany. The vast majority of Ukrainian refugees in Germany are women and children. According to the German Ministry of Labour, 185,000 Ukrainians are currently working in Germany on a permanent basis, while another 47,000 are employed part-time or in so-called mini-jobs.
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