The Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung reported that the party had proposed a motion under the title “Refugee citizens to checkout, enforce reimbursement claims” introduced into the Bundestag. The initiative will be discussed in parliament.
Previously, 15 federal states had started reception programs for Syrian migrants to enable them to enter the country. The condition for this was the surrender of a guarantee by relatives or third persons living in Germany.
By doing so, the guarantors undertook to pay for social benefits. According to the newspaper, however, many guarantors had given false statements and did not know what the costs were going to be. The Job Centers has since sent many of them notices of five-digit figures.
At the end of January, the federal government had agreed with Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse on the assumption of guarantor costs after prior examination of individual cases. Most of the decisions had been made in these three federal states.
As the newspaper noted, the Ministry of the Interior in Hannover will pay out a total of 15 million euros. According to the Federal Employment Ministry, the Employment Agency will investigate to enable Job Centers to decide which debts should not be collected.
Guarantors’ payments were first suspended by SPD Social Affairs Minister Hubertus Heil.
AfD MP René Springer on Thursday said at least 2500 reimbursement notices were sent out, which is over a total of 21 million euros. And that is probably only the tip of the iceberg, according to Springer.
“Anyone who believed and hoped that the decisions under the leadership of the SPD minister will now be executed, also believes the fairy tale that the SPD is a people’s party and politics in the interest of citizens and taxpayers.”
Many guarantors did not want to pay when the Job Center bill arrived in their mail. Springer noted: “As happened so often in recent years, the emotional bubble of the welcomer and premium helper burst at the first contact with the economic consequences.”
The AFD member expressed the fear that the recovery of costs would not only be limited, but completely stopped. This was indicated by a statement of the SPD Interior Minister Boris Pistorius from Lower Saxony, who announced on 24 January that he would no longer demand a refund obligation from guarantors. This means that the cost of private refugee guarantors will be passed on to taxpayers.
According to Springer, this existing guarantee claims are being ignored solely for political reasons. He said federal government should “get our tax money back from the refugee bailiffs: every cent.”
An 80-year-old man from Uelzen, who in 2014 had vouched for four Syrians, must now pay 80 000 euros to the Job Center.
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