The STATE audit warned the Bundestag that less than half of Ukrainian refugees in Germany successfully complete the integration course, German media reports.
"Despite the huge costs, the results of the integration courses are sobering: less than half of the Ukrainian refugees have successfully completed these courses," says the State Audit report submitted to the parliamentary budget committee and reported by German media.
The state audit refers to data from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, according to which, since the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, 450,000 Ukrainian refugees have been registered for integration courses, which mostly consist of learning the German language.
Due to lack of knowledge of the language, only one in five Ukrainians works
Of that number, by the end of September this year, 135,000 started integration courses, of which only 61,266 completed the courses successfully. About 56,000 failed the final exam, in most cases due to poor knowledge of German, and 16,000 dropped out of the course early.
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, over a million refugees from this country have been registered in Germany. They, unlike other refugees, claim the right to the full amount of social assistance and other state benefits, such as rent and utilities, from day one, just like German citizens.
Recent studies have shown that only every fifth refugee from Ukraine of working age has a job.
The main reason for the low employment rate among Ukrainian refugees is insufficient knowledge of the German language.
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