Plakolm wants to get integration package on the way – Diepresse.com
The Integration Minister announces the « starting shot » in the Council of Ministers for the measures provided for in the government program, including tightening at the German courses for entitled to asylum. Again, social assistance for asylum seekers is discussed.
Integration Minister Claudia Plakolm (ÖVP) wants to get the planned integration package on the way to the German courses for asylum seekers on Wednesday in the Council of Ministers. For this purpose, a ministerial council is to be brought in from your office, which will initially only represent the « starting shot » for mandatory integration measures. The implementation will take a long time, it was said from her department.
The project has already been announced in the government program, according to which a mandatory integration program for those entitled to protection and asylum seekers should come with a highly presumable- including competence screening as well as values and German placement. The government program also provides for the Pönals government program, for example, in the form of self -preserved, should German courses not exist.
Debate about social benefits
After a report of the Kronen Zeitungaccording to which a large family with eleven children in Vienna with eleven children in Vienna receives around 9,000 euros in social assistance per month, the amount of social benefits was discussed again. According to the report, the family is expected to receive 6,000 euros in minimum security and 3,000 euros in family allowance per month.
According to data from the Integration Ministry of Plakolm, around 266,000 people in Austria received social assistance – an increase of four percent compared to 2023. More than half of the recipients were foreign citizens in four federal states: 67 percent in Vienna, 62 percent in Tyrol, 61 percent in Vorarlberg and 51 percent in Styria.
FPÖ wants to link social benefits to citizenship
Criticism of the social benefits for asylum entitled to asylum came above all from the FPÖ: « The ÖVP has tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who crossed countless safe third countries and thus lost nothing in Austria, rolled out the red carpet into our country and in our social system, » said FPÖ general secretary Michael Schledlitz in a broadcast on Sunday. Together with the other parties, the ÖVP made Austria a « World Social Office ».
This has to be over, said the FPÖ politician. « Social benefits are to be linked to Austrian citizenship, » he said. Everything else is « continued domestic discrimination and discrimination against the hardworking ». (APA)
