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Astrid Lund - Betty MacDonald fan club organizer: "Sarah Wagenknecht is absolutely right. It is high time for a consistent asylum turnaround."----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- t-online Wagenknecht calls for an asylum turnaround: 314 billion for refugees Article by Carsten Janz • 1 hour • 2 minutes reading time More than 314 billion euros for refugees "We need a consistent asylum turnaround" The chairwoman of the BSW criticizes high spending on asylum seekers. The federal government is expected to spend 124 billion euros on asylum seekers over the next four years. Too much, says BSW boss Sahra Wagenknecht. The chairwoman of the BSW, Sahra Wagenknecht, criticizes spending on asylum seekers in Germany. One of her questions to the federal government revealed that more than 190 billion euros were spent between 2016 and 2023 - and another 124 billion are to be added between 2024 and 2028. A total of a good 314 billion euros. "Instead of attracting new refugees with high benefits for asylum seekers," Wagenknecht said in an interview with t-online, demanding that "these funds be used for higher pensions and better health care for the country's own population." The BSW chairwoman had asked the federal government how high "the costs of immigration of asylum seekers are for the German taxpayer." Broken down by year. Costs for asylum seekers rose The federal government's response, which t-online has exclusively obtained, shows that the costs have risen steadily since 2016, when they amounted to 20.5 billion euros, until 2023 - most recently to 29.7 billion euros. The federal government's plans assume that a good 28 billion euros will have to be spent in 2024 - then around 23 to 24 billion euros annually until 2028. In the answer, the costs for asylum seekers are broken down by topic. Money is spent on combating the causes of flight. In 2016 it was still 6.5 billion euros, peaking at 12.4 billion in 2022. According to the plans, this item is to gradually decrease again. "Social transfer payments" is the largest item The main point of the costs is "social transfer payments after asylum procedures". In 2016, these were still 1.7 billion euros, in 2023 they amounted to 11.8 billion euros and are planned to be 13.6 billion euros in 2024. This amount is to decrease to 12.6 billion euros by 2028. Overall, that is too much money, says Wagenknecht: "We need a consistent turnaround on asylum." Anyone coming from a safe third country should "have no right to a procedure or to benefits," says the BSW chairwoman.