Migration: Fewer people receive benefits for asylum seekers

Significantly fewer asylum seekers will receive aid in Thuringia in 2025 than ten years ago.

At the end of 2025, 8,670 people received so-called standard benefits for asylum seekers, as the State Office for Statistics announced.

The year before there were 10,275 people.

Compared to the peak at the end of 2015, there were around 20,000 fewer recipients, according to the statisticians.

In 2015, a particularly large number of people from Syria fled to Germany because of the civil war at the time.

At the end of last year, a large proportion of the recipients came from Syria (1,940 people) and Afghanistan (1,190 people).

The security situation in Syria has remained difficult since the fall of long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad at the end of 2024, and there have been waves of violence against minorities on several occasions.

According to the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Afghanistan is one of the largest humanitarian emergencies in the world; The Islamist Taliban rule there.

Many from Syria and Turkey

Around 1,320 asylum seekers had Turkish citizenship, 675 had a Russian Federation passport and 395 had Ukrainian citizenship.

About 1,235 of the asylum seekers who received statutory financial and material support came from Africa.

Most asylum seekers (4,955) were housed in a central refugee accommodation.

3,555 lived in shared accommodation.

According to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, the benefits under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act include benefits in kind and a monthly amount of money to cover personal everyday needs.

What exactly the benefits look like depends on the respective case.

It plays a role, for example, whether it is adults or young people and how the people are accommodated - the respective amount is then adjusted.