Germany: A steep increase in benefit payments as 600,000 Ukrainians receive basic security
At least 604,000 Ukrainians received basic social security in October, according to the Federal Employment Agency (BA). This money, otherwise only available to local long-term unemployed people, could have been paid out to many more refugees. The numbers are “preliminary and not extrapolated,” admits the BA led by Andrea Nahles of the Social Democrats, as […]
