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8.15 Billion Euros Citizen's Money: Why Housing Costs Are so High for Foreigners

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Billion-costs for accommodation: More than 17.68 billion euros were spent by Jobcenters 2024 for rent, heating, operating costs

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According to recent figures from the German government, 8.15 billion euros were spent on housing costs for beneficiaries with foreign citizenship in 2023 – 46 percent of all such expenses. Meanwhile, only 15 percent of the country's population does not have German citizenship.

·Budapest, Hungary
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Billion-costs for accommodation: More than 17.68 billion euros were spent by Jobcenters 2024 for rent, heating, operating costs

·Berlin, Germany
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The German government spent a whopping €17 billion on housing support in 2024 through the so-called Bürgergeld system. New figures show that almost half of that amount went to people without a German passport. Despite making up only around 15 percent of the population, they received more than €8 billion in rent subsidies, energy costs, service charges and deposits.

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On June 4, 2025, TE reported on the mass abuse of the citizen's money and the probably unfollowed announcement of the responsible Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Bärbel Bas (SPD) to limit abuse.The article The citizen's money is and remains a barrel without ground first appeared on Tichy's insight.

According to the latest statistics from the German government, almost half of the housing expenditure provided as social assistance in 2023 was spent on rental housing for people with foreign citizenship. Of the total expenditure of 17.68 billion euros, 8.15 billion were spent on housing for non-German citizens – this amount accounted for 46 percent of this type of support, while only 15 percent of the German population does not have a German pa…

·Budapest, Hungary
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The costs for rent, heating, electricity of the citizens' money recipients rise to just under 18 billion euros. Now becomes public for the first time as they are distributed among foreigners and Germans. This article AfD inquiry The housing costs of the foreign citizens' money recipients have been published on Junge Freiheit.

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Bild broke the news in Berlin, Germany on Monday, June 30, 2025.
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