In Germany going to pay unemployment benefits in an unusual place

It is the only such experience in the world.

In the branches of the Federal labor Agency will be dismantled machines, through which was money paid to the unemployed.

Benefits will be available at the box office 8 thousand stores.The Federal Agency for labour (BA) disassemble all housed in its branches and cash machines, through which paid unemployment benefits. Instead, the money will be available at the cash desks of supermarkets and shops household chemicals and cosmetics, said the representative of the Ministry on Sunday, 12 November, AFP, thus confirming previously appeared in the Welt am Sonntag newspaper information.

Benefits will be paid over 8 thousand stores, including network, Rewe, Penny, Real, DM and Rossmann. The transition to receiving benefits in the supermarket will be completed by the end of 2018.

In 2016, the Federal employment Agency paid about 400 thousand allowances totalling 120 million euros through special machines, as further pointed out the Agency interlocutor. The majority of the unemployed receive benefits by crediting to Bank account, and payments through the machines was carried out mainly in emergency cases, he said. In addition, there is the possibility of obtaining benefits in the form of cash checks.

According to Welt am Sonntag, the maintenance of more than 300 machines in the branches of the labor Agency spent about $ 3.2 million per year. They decided to dismantle it for reasons of economy.

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