As the Interior Ministry moves forward with plans to roll out the payment card, a legal dispute is looming in the “pilot country”: because he can no longer buy “everyday goods” on online platforms with the payment card, an asylum seeker has to The seeker, who is based in Lower Austria, even called in his lawyer. What’s in the application and what happens next.
In June, Lower Austria became the first state to introduce a payment card for basic services for asylum seekers. “The benefit-in-kind cards serve to prevent the purchase of tobacco and alcohol and to prevent transfers to potential traffickers,” it was said at the time – and it is still said today.
In eight selected accommodations in Lower Austria, instead of banknotes, payment cards from the provider Pluxee (formerly Sodexo) were distributed to asylum seekers. According to the ÖVP state governor of Lower Austria, Johanna Mikl-Leitner, Lower Austria would like to take the lead as a pilot country with this model. Because ‘if it works for us as the largest country, it works everywhere’, it was said.
Whether everything really works will probably be decided in court very soon.
Source: Krone
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