Poor German craftsman plans to emigrate to Mallorca!

Poor German craftsman plans to emigrate to Mallorca!

In the latest episode of the RTL-Zwei documentary "Armes Germany", the 53-year-old Stephan is introduced, who is faced with considerable difficulties in his life. He has not received any money from the job center in the past few weeks because he lacks numerous documents. However, these problems are not the only ones with whom he fights. Stephan lives under precarious conditions in a hunting hut that has no flowing water or electricity. He receives support from neighbors who help him. Nevertheless, he plans a brave step: emigration to Mallorca, where he wants to work as a craftsman and enjoy the sun. He openly admits that he intends to cheat on the job center, and does not see this as a moral problem.

"I want to put up with the money and see how the job center can handle it," says Stephan. However, he has not yet decided how long he would like to keep his emigration plans secret. This provocative attitude raises questions about social security in Germany, which is described in the documentary as "no game". It remains unclear whether Stephan intends to tax the income from his work in Mallorca there.

was a growing problem with civil allowance

The case of Stephan is not isolated, because citizenship budget is an increasingly serious problem in Germany. According to an investigation on Buerger-geld and use both individuals System. The most common fraud stitches include incorrect information on income or assets, the concealment of additional income as well as false positions, in which foreign workers have less than actually worked and apply for additional civil allowance.

In this context, the discourse on civil allowance for refugee Ukrainians increases in intensity. As merkur.de see some policies in the immediate granting of civil allowance to Ukrainian refugees. The CDU boss Friedrich Merz addressed this topic and explained the distribution of suspected cases to different federal states. For example, the Berliner Zeitung Minimum reported 5609 suspected cases of citizens' money fraud to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, with most of them localized in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.

The first steps have already been taken to improve the document exhibition by Ukrainian authorities and to rethink the access conditions to the citizens' benefit. To date, around 700,000 Ukrainians receive citizenship in Germany; A total of over 154,000 have been sent to integration courses since January 2023. This raises the question to what extent these measures can effectively shape the support of needy migrants.

The case of Stephan and the growing fraud in the civil allowance system illustrate how complex the topic is. The pressure to find solutions grows because society is faced with a variety of social and economic challenges.