In April 2024, the German government decided to introduce the payment card throughout Germany. Instead of using a check, cash or a direct transfer to their own account, refugees are now forced to pay with a payment card. In Brandenburg, the payment card has already been implemented in the district of Märkisch-Oderland. More and more districts and municipalities are also preparing to introduce the payment card.
With this website we would like to create a platform to inform each other , exchange ideas and become active.
Become active
Here you will find practical ways to take action against the payment card.
Exchange credit from the payment card for cash:
Info
What is really behind the payment card? How does it work, who benefits from it and how does it actually affect everyday life?
Networking
Here you can write to us and share your experiences with the payment card on this website.
The payment card restricts people in their everyday lives and is discriminatory. It prevents the people concerned from having free access to their money and makes their lives unnecessarily difficult. The introduction is based on racist symbolic politics . This follows right-wing populist demands and violates human dignity.
Instead of providing solutions, the payment card creates a system of control and monitoring. We and many others want to prevent precisely this and therefore say quite clearly: No to the harassment card!
We demand bank accounts and cash for all! Enough money to live on, to spend it on whatever and without the authorities having access to it.
We demand the abolition of the discriminatory Asylum Seekers’ Benefits Act and equal social rights for all!
We call on all of you to show solidarity with each other and let the racist symbolic politics come to nothing. Organize yourselves for voucher exchange campaigns and against the discriminatory and exclusionary system.