Overview

• The federal plan would place Ukrainians who sought protection after March 31 under standard asylum-seeker benefits rather than Bürgergeld.
• Interior Minister Armin Schuster called the legal shift urgently necessary, citing rising entries into Saxony.
• Saxony recorded 35 arrivals in the week of July 28–August 3 and 100 in the week of August 25–31.
• Poland now grants key social benefits to Ukrainians only if they work and pay taxes, a change that prompted political dispute involving President Karol Nawrocki.
• Germany has taken in about 1.3 million people from Ukraine since 2022, after initially moving them under SGB II to access jobcenter-run integration services.