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عربية – DW
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By the end of 2025, German child benefits were being paid for 291,292 children living outside Germany. Although the number had fallen by around 12% since 2020, it was nearly three times the 2011 figure. Children of Polish nationals topped the list, at 112,384, followed by children of Czech nationals, at 33,872, and Romanian nationals, at 32,459. Transfers to bank accounts outside Germany reached around €528 million in 2025. However, this represented just 0.95% of total child-benefit spending, and the location of an account does not necessarily show where a child lives. EU rules coordinating social security systems require Germany to pay benefits in certain cases to families living in other member states; a child’s residence outside Germany, on its own, is not evidence of wrongdoing. The figures prompted political calls to change eligibility rules and tighten oversight. A raid in Duisburg, meanwhile, identified 59 suspected cases involving children registered without actually living there. But data from North Rhine-Westphalia showed that Romanian and Bulgarian nationals accounted for only 5.6% of those suspected of benefit fraud, and warned against generalizing the accusations to entire communities.
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