12 minutes agoGermany pays rent for 1 year for asylum seekers returning voluntarily
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)The German Interior Ministry has launched a controversial campaign, promising to pay a year's rent for asylum seekers who voluntarily return to their countries of origin. The poster, in which your country was written, your future” has now appeared in the German capital, and recently in different languages, including French, English, Arabic [...]
The poster, in which your country was written, your future” has now appeared in the German capital, and recently in different languages, including French, English, Arabic and Russian.
The Interior Ministry has confirmed that posters are part of “Kission from Germany”, hoping to increase the number of asylum seekers who volunteer to return to their country of origin, transmit “TCH”
The campaign promotes a repatriation programme through which asylum seekers can receive additional assistance if they apply for return before December 31st.
Returners will receive assistance for housing in the form of support for rent, construction or reconstruction, or for basic equipment such as kitchens or toilets, with the maximum amount going to 3,000 euros for one family, or 1,000 euros for one person, sends albinfo.ch.
Germany also previously offered various types of financial incentives for asylum seekers who wanted to return home.
Those who decide to return before the procedures are completed can receive up to 1,200 euros, while those who decide to return within the specified period, following the refusal to demand for asylum, may receive 800 euros.
