Limited cash payouts reduce incentives for illegal migration. However simple the motives behind the hotly debated payment card system for basic services for asylum seekers may seem, its implementation is likely to be complicated. Asylum expert Lukas Gahleitner-Gertz criticizes the plans, speaks of “fantasy figures” and expects “huge additional costs”.
Three states, one subject. While the governor of Burgenland, Hans Peter Doskozil, is pushing for an upper limit of 10,000 asylum applications per year, the governor of Upper Austria, Thomas Stelzer, wants to introduce a payment card based on the German model. And in Lower Austria, the national debate draws attention to the fact that it is even enshrined in the black-blue government program that basic services should be switched from cash benefits to benefits in kind. Lukas Gahleitner-Gertz is spokesperson for the Austrian Asylum Coordination – and does not like all these suggestions.
Source: Krone
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