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Germany plans to significantly increase social benefits for refugees from Ukraine

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Germany changed the amount of payments to Ukrainian refugees/getty images

Germany due to the war of the war, will receive a better level of social protection and support in finding a job.

From June, payments will amount to 450 euros

This is provided for by a government bill, which will soon be considered by the Bundestag. In particular, from June 1, Ukrainian refugees will receive social assistance received by the German unemployed. The basic allowance for an adult is 449 euros (Regelsatz Arbeitslosengeld II).

Until now, refugees from Ukraine have received social assistance on the basis of the law on asylum seekers, which provided for a payment of about 300 euros per month for an adult and a little less for minor children.

As you know, social protection of Ukrainian refugees the government has allocated 2 billion euros.

Ukrainians must apply to Jobcenter

From June 1, Ukrainian refugees who received a residence permit in accordance with §24 will receive assistance not from the departments for social protection of city administrations or communities, but from employment centers – Jobcenter, the message says.

It is in the Jobcenter that Ukrainians will need to register as job seekers in order to receive payments.

Note! Whether the social departments of the communities, which at the first stage provided social benefits to Ukrainian refugees, will transfer the data of Ukrainians to the Jobcenter, or whether everyone will need to submit applications to the Jobcenter by June 1, is still unknown.

About two thousand euros for a mother and two children

That is, Ukrainians in the issue of social guarantees will be equated to people who have a permanent residence permit in Germany, and to persons who have received political asylum in the country.

The department emphasizes that the corresponding status that refugees from different corners of the world are received individually after many months of consideration of an application to a shelter, Ukrainians receive it automatically within a few weeks.

More than 5 million people left Ukraine to escape the war

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  • According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, 5,186,744 people became refugees during the two months of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Most people left for neighboring Poland – 2.9 million.
  • More than 5 million Ukrainians were forced to seek asylum in other countries because of the war. Almost half of them want to return home, but are no longer in a hurry to go back to Ukraine.
  • By the way, at the beginning of the full-scale invasion in Germany, they announced that they were expecting 8 million Ukrainian refugees in the European Union.
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