The program of employment of Ukrainians in Germany, launched a year ago, did not live up to expectations, testifies to the audit of the Accounting Chamber of Germany, as reported by Bild. Currently, social assistance in Germany receives about 720 thousand Ukrainians, of whom about half a million are able to work. The monthly costs for their maintenance are about 539 million euros.
The German government has introduced an initiative called Job Turbo, hoping to facilitate the integration in the labor market by reducing Ukrainians by reducing the requirements for knowledge of German. However, the results of the program were unsatisfactory: in 2023, only 20% of integration courses received proposals for work from employment centers, and none of them went to work. 40% of graduates received vacancies this year, but less than 1% came to work.
Other problems that interfere with the success of the program are long queues for integration courses and frequent refusals to participate in them, sometimes without supporting medical certificates. After completing the courses, the graduates are obliged to come to the employment center every six weeks, but in 2023 the term of waiting for such centers was on average six months, and this year - 115 days.
The Bundestag MP Kai Wittacker said: "The German government is lying again. Instead of saving through" turbo-labor ", only the cost of assistance to Ukrainian citizens is rapidly increasing. Turbo-work became turbowork. Less than a third of Ukrainians work in Germany."
