The year 2022 will surpass 2015, the year with the highest number of arrivals to date, with 3,781 refugees. Since the beginning of the war of aggression against Ukraine and up to mid-July, 5,116 Ukrainian refugees have already been registered in the district, of which around 1,000 refugees were allocated directly to the district by the state. In addition, 570 asylum seekers from third countries such as Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Turkey had been accepted by the district by the end of June.
Responsibility for accommodating refugees from Ukraine lies with the municipalities. The district was only able to provide relief for a short time - the high numbers of refugees allocated by the state mean that it is sometimes necessary to allocate refugees directly to the municipalities. In June and July alone, 500 refugees had to be redistributed from the state to the municipalities. The situation in the municipalities is also tense and accommodation options are scarce.
The district has been working flat out for months to expand accommodation capacity, as the district's shared accommodation is 85% full. Eight new accommodations with 700 places have already been realized. In Bietigheim-Bissingen, for example, a former boarding house with 172 places has been rented. The district is doing everything in its power to prevent occupancy by emergency accommodation in the fall, although the closure of sports halls cannot be ruled out due to the high number of refugees being allocated by the state.
Since June, refugees from Ukraine have been entitled to benefits under the Second or Twelfth Social Security Code ("Hartz IV", "Grundsicherung") instead of benefits under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act. The Jobcenter Landkreis Ludwigsburg is responsible for this. District Administrator Dietmar Allgaier criticizes the federal government's plans to abolish the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act in principle: "There should not be a two-tier society between refugees of different nationalities, but assigning all refugees to SGBII would be a mistake that would lead to large-scale migration movements within Europe. We should not create incentives for illegal migration to Germany."
