Single asylum seekers should no longer have their social benefits reduced by a flat rate of ten percent because they live in a refugee home. The Federal Constitutional Court announced on Thursday that there was no indication that savings would actually be achieved there through joint management. The across-the-board reduction violates the fundamental right to a decent subsistence level. The Federal Constitutional Court explained that the legislature cannot simply assume that these people need less money than if they lived alone. The “special needs level” introduced in 2019 is incompatible with the Basic Law.
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