“… Alexander (name changed), a 37-year-old Ukrainian who spent about a year living on the citizen’s income in Berlin, said he could understand the sentiment behind the FDP and CDU’s calls, but that the Bürgergeld had been vital to helping him find his feet in a very dark period of his life.
“When I came here I was totally lost, I was mentally lost,” he told DW. “Then we went to the Job Center, and we had the payments, we had the support from them. In my case everything went pretty smoothly.”
Receiving Bürgergeld — currently €563 ($603) a month for single people — also meant Alexander, a music producer and sound designer who had a successful business in Ukraine, had access to job counselling and help finding a German language course, all of which ultimately allowed him to get off state support within a year. Under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act, he would have received just €354 a month, and no help from the Job Center.”
He’s 37 why was he a “refugee”?
The issue of fighting age men evading the draft undermines support for Ukraine.
It’s not just a “few” estimates now place the number at 1 million men.
Is the Zelensky government one we should support?
Our 19 Billion in funding been nothing more than an ego trip for Trudeau and Freeland.
Have all of Canada’s problems been solved?
