From the Thuringian SPD, the demand that social benefits for migrants will only be awarded as a “interest -free loan” in the future. Openness is signaled in the Union in the Bundestag. Opponents of the project lead an argument against the plan in the field.
Adult asylum seekers, recognized refugees and foreigners from non-EU countries should only receive social benefits as loans in the future-that is the Request of two SPD district councilors from Thuringia. “Anyone who comes into our country and has not paid anything here can only get social benefits as a interest -free loan,” said the North House District Administrator Matthias Jendricke to the magazine „Stern“ said. The district administrator of the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district, Marko Wolfram (SPD), supported the idea.
What opportunities does the proposal have for implementation?
Philipp Amthor, who sits on the federal board of the CDU, says Welt TV that the idea has a “certain charm”. He explains: “She pays a fairer understanding. We have to take note – it affects asylum seekers, but also other social benefits that are tax -financed – that this is about payments of the community without being paid in advance. I find it correctly, and in this respect you should look at this suggestion.”
Criticism comes from the party of the two district administrators. The SPD’s migration policy spokeswoman, Rasha Nasr, reports: “Anyone who comes to us from war and emergency situations must find security. The fundamental right to a worthy subsistence minimum may and will not be replaced by a loan. The Federal Constitutional Court has already made it clear in 2022 that social benefits are a claim that must be guaranteed and in a permanent manner.”
The welfare state is an achievement that should not be hollowed out by a kind of guilt system. Instead, incentives would have to be created, such as the dismantling of work bans in the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act, according to the SPD politician.
The AfD emphasizes that the SPD district council’s push shows the right political will, but it is not far enough. René Springer, social policy spokesman for his parliamentary group, argues: “In principle, citizens’ money only has to be paid for foreigners after ten years of existential employment – and then only for a limited time for one year. There are already loan models today. However, experience shows that many of these loans are never paid back. This creates damage in billions in billions.” If you cannot secure your livelihood through work, you will not be able to repay a loan.
The Left Party directly attacks the SPD district councilors for their advance. Clara Bünger, spokeswoman for escape, says: “The SPD is legally incompetent. Its proposal clearly shows that they obviously do not know what is in our Basic Law. Article 1 Paragraph 1 in connection with Article 20 Paragraph 1 of the Basic Law guarantees the subsistence level unconditionally. Anyone who awards a livelihood as a loan transforms a fundamental right into a promise. ” Article 1 paragraph 1 of the Basic Law is emphasized by the dignity of man.
The Greens did not comment on the world request.
“Antocial and absurd,” says Pro Asyl
The German Paritätische Wohlfahrtsverband around its managing director Joachim Rock emphasizes: “Services for life and survival are a human right. This does not have to apply without restriction.” Anyone who questions this, border people and provokes the need and impairing.
Rock argues: “The basic security benefits in the citizen benefit and for refugees are already far too low. They do not help out of poverty, but solidify them.” Language promotion, social participation and labor market integration would have to be actively promoted. “And this is the only way we do justice to people and ensure that society does not fly apart.”
The proposal for Pro Asyl also meets resistance. In a press release, the refugee spokesman for the association, Tarq Alaow, is quoted: “Social benefits for refugees as loans would be anti -social and absurd and also in all likelihood. The advance suggests that people only fled to Germany because of social benefits. “However, this trivializes crises and wars as well as political and religious persecution in the countries of origin,” he says.
Migration researcher Yuliya Kosyakova from the University of Bamberg also considers the model to be unconstitutional: “Benefits according to the asylum seeker benefit law and citizen benefit are not insurance benefits, but if necessary, secure the existence minimum. leave constitutionally. ”
The same applies to the unequal treatment of foreign nationals in securing the subsistence minimum. In addition, the employment rates of the protection seekers who were moving in 2015 have now been very adjusted to the population average.
The Thuringian SPD district administrator Jendricke had stated that it imagined the model, similar to the BAföG for students: Anyone who quickly takes up employment subject to social security contributions should only repay part of the services obtained. If the repayment takes place quickly or changed refugees within one year, discounts should also be granted.
Nicolas Walter is an editor at the world. Among other things, he reports on foreign policy, migration and political extremism.