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    Germany limits cash benefit payments for asylum-seekers. Critics say it's designed to curb migration

    by Fanny Brodersen May 13, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

    When Erdina Laca goes grocery shopping in Eichsfeld these days, she pulls out a special payment card that’s for asylum-seekers only.

    She no longer pays in cash for her apples, eggs and fish — like most of the Germans standing in line with her at the register.

    Laca, 45, came from with her husband and three children and applied for asylum in Germany last September. The family lives in the county of Eichsfeld in the eastern state of and has been one of the first

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