BerlinBerlin will suspend asylum seekers’ 50-euro monthly cash cap.
Not every shop accepts cards, and the cap left asylum seekers little cash.
Since August, asylum seekers in Germany’s last state to adopt it get a debit card instead of cash.
The Berlin Refugee Council calls the suspension a partial success on a longer road.
Berlin’s coalition negotiators decide whether the card itself is scrapped.
How each outlet framed it
- netzpolitik.org leans critical
- frames the 50-euro cash cap as discriminatory, quoting the social senator's 'discriminatory character' and the refugee council's 12-page letter as the trigger
Sources: netzpolitik.org