The social welfare offices in the twelve districts have already granted support to 35,347 Ukrainian refugees. The number of new applications has been falling since the beginning of April.
The number of arrivals at the main train station is also low: while tens of thousands of special trains rolled into the capital every day at the beginning of the war in February, on Friday only 2,000 arrived in regular trains and 139 in ten regular buses at the central bus station.
Figures from the social welfare offices (see chart below), which were presented to the Central Social Committee last week, show which districts have the most Ukrainians:
► 4905 in Mitte
► 2924 in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
► 3798 in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
► 2580 Steglitz-Zehlendorf
In the central social welfare office alone, 18 full-time positions are still needed for the longer-term care of war refugees. Currently, other tasks have to wait at peak times, such as processing basic security.
The federal states have negotiated with the federal government that from June the job centers will be responsible for looking after the new refugees.
