Press Benefits for asylum seekers, 2017: roughly 469,000 people entitled to benefits

Government net expenditure on benefits paid in accordance with the Act on Benefits for Asylum Seekers at 5.6 billion euros

Press release No. 312 of 23 August 2018

Recipients of standard benefits for Asylum-Seekers

WIESBADEN – At the end of 2017, a total of 469,000 people received standard benefits in accordance with the Act on Benefits for Asylum Seekers (AsylbLG). That was a 36% decrease compared with the previous year (728,000 people). The number of recipients went down for the second consecutive time (2015/2016: -25%).

Basic data and long time series are available in table Recipients of standard benefits for asylum seekers (22221-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database

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