The Speyer Social Court has also ordered the Supervisory and Service Directorate (ADD) to provisionally grant benefits to a person in the reception center for asylum seekers (AFA) in Kusel whose benefits were reduced without a formal decision, due to the likely incompatibility of the exclusion from benefits under Section 1 Paragraph 4 of the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act (AsylbLG) with European law…
Keyword: Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act
The Trier Social Court considers Section 1 Paragraph 4 of the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act (AsylbLG) to be contrary to European law
The Trier Social Court, however, in eight rulings, has ordered the social welfare authorities of the municipalities of Hermeskeil and Konz and the city of Trier to continue granting basic benefits under Sections 3 and 3a of the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act (AsylbLG) at standard benefit level 1, because the regulation in Section 1, Paragraph …
The Halle Social Court considers the reduction in benefits under the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act (AsylbLG) from January 1, 2025, to be unlawful
The Social Court of Halle, in its decision of March 17, 2025, case number S 17 AY 3/25 ER, concurred with the opinion of the Social Court of Marburg, decision of February 14, 2025, case number S 16 AY 11/24 ER, and also determined that Section 28a Paragraph 5 of the German Social Code (SGB) …
Information on the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act (AsylbLG) / current problems published
Due to the significant impact of changes to the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act (AsylbLG), we have published special pages on current legal issues within the AsylbLG, which we update as new developments arise. Information on the AsylbLG / current issues
APPEAL: Human dignity applies to everyone – including refugees! Against stricter social welfare laws and for the abolition of the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act
Joint statement from 154 organizations: For several weeks now, there have been persistent calls for in-kind benefits and benefit cuts for refugees. However, those affected already often only receive the reduced benefits under the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act. In this debate, groups are being pitted against each other, and human dignity is being violated…
APPEAL: There is only one human dignity – abolish the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act!
Many refugees receive only benefits under the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act – less than the new basic income, which, according to the law, is supposed to guarantee a dignified minimum standard of living. But human dignity knows no double standards. Human rights organizations, welfare associations, and lawyers' associations are demanding equal standards for all: The Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act must be abolished. Those affected must be integrated into the regular social welfare system.
The Federal Constitutional Court declares the so-called standard benefit level 2b for single refugees and single parents in collective accommodations to be unconstitutional
In a decision dated November 23, 2022 (Case No. 1 BvL 3/21), the Federal Constitutional Court declared the reduced standard benefit level 2b for single refugees and single parents in collective accommodations under Section 2 Paragraph 1 Sentence 4 No. 1 of the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act (AsylbLG) unconstitutional. On August 21, 2019, the so-called…
The Federal Constitutional Court declares the so-called standard benefit level 2b for single refugees and single parents in collective accommodations to be unconstitutional
The Federal Constitutional Court has declared the reduced standard benefit level 2b for single refugees and single parents in collective accommodations under Section 2 Paragraph 1 Sentence 4 No. 1 of the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act (AsylbLG) unconstitutional. Press release of the Federal Constitutional Court: https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/2022/bvg22-096.html Full text of the decision: https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Entscheidungen/DE/2022/10/ls20221019_1bvl000321.html
The Federal Constitutional Court's decision on standard benefit level 2b for receiving Asylum Seekers' Benefits in collective accommodations is pending
On November 23, 2022, the Federal Constitutional Court will decide in case 1 BvL 3/21 (Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act) on the so-called standard benefit level 2 for benefit recipients in collective accommodations.
PRO ASYL and state refugee councils are calling for the inclusion of refugees in the citizen's income law
On the occasion of today's planned adoption of the Citizen's Income Act in the Bundestag, PRO ASYL and the Berlin Refugee Council are presenting a comprehensive analysis of the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act, which shows: The special law for asylum seekers is discriminatory and should be abolished. With the planned Citizen's Income Act, Hartz IV will be replaced by…
