Benefits in kind instead of direct payments: Prime Minister Söder campaigned with this initiative in 2018. Now he is warming up the proposal – while his interior minister is planning to soon provide refugees with a special prepaid card.
Prime Minister Markus Söder recently unearthed a long-running issue: in the future, asylum seekers in Bavaria should increasingly receive benefits in kind instead of state payments, i.e. food packages, hygiene items, things like that. His thesis: without cash there are fewer incentives to flee.