Basic care (Austria)

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The basic provision in Austria includes the provision of asylum seekers and other foreigners in need by the state .

Goals of primary care

The main aim of the measure is to provide an offer with which the basic needs of daily life can be covered. This includes food, accommodation, health insurance , medical services, services for people in need of care, clothing assistance, information and legal advice, interpreting costs, leisure activities, pocket money, school supplies, special care, looking after unaccompanied minors, costs for transport, German courses, funerals and administrative costs.

After an asylum application has been successfully dealt with and the basic provision has ended, recognized refugees - like other residents of Austria - are entitled to the needs-based minimum income until they are integrated enough to earn their own living.

legal framework

The basic supply is regulated at the federal level by the Basic Services Act - Federal Government 2005 (Federal Law Gazette I No. 100/2005, former Federal Care Act ) and in the states by their own state laws. The federal government is responsible for initial reception ( federal care centers ) , the federal states for the care of asylum seekers (asylum dormitories and private quarters), and for recognized refugees who are otherwise entitled to stay. The standardization of the basic service takes place via the basic service agreement (federal - state) , an agreement according to Art. 15a B-VG from 2004 (Federal Law Gazette I No. 80/2004). This also ensures the implementation of EU asylum law . On the basis of this contract, the asylum seekers are allocated to the individual federal states according to a key.

Basis for Claims

By signing the Geneva Refugee Convention in 1951, Austria committed itself to accepting and looking after refugees. According to the agreement on basic services between the federal and state governments from 2004, the following people are "aliens in need of help and protection" who are entitled to support:

  • Asylum seekers while the procedure is ongoing
  • Persons entitled to asylum during the first four months after granting asylum. They are then entitled to social benefits like an Austrian (e.g. needs-based minimum income, family allowance, etc.).
  • Persons who cannot be deported for legal and factual reasons (such as persons entitled to subsidiary protection ) if they cannot adequately cover the living costs for themselves and their relatives and do not receive them from other institutions.

costs

As a rule, asylum seekers stay in quarters until the decision on their asylum application is made, which, with full provision, receive a daily rate of 19 euros per person for board and lodging, which the host receives. In addition, the asylum seekers receive pocket money of 40 euros per month. The daily rate for unaccompanied minors in residential groups is 95 euros.

In the case of partial self-sufficiency, the accommodation providers pay part of the daily rates directly to the asylum seekers (110 euros per month), who have to provide for themselves. In addition, they receive basic food, hygiene articles and again 40 euros pocket money. With self-sufficiency, local providers receive a daily rate of 12 euros, while asylum seekers feed themselves with 150 euros per month.

In the case of self-organized living space without supervision, the rent is 120 euros for individuals and 240 euros for families. The meal allowance is 200 euros per person for adults and 90 euros for minors.

Other services can include:

  • Health insurance
  • Clothing assistance up to 150 euros / year
  • School supplies up to a maximum of 200 euros / year
  • Travel expenses for school attendance

The federal government reimburses 60% of the costs of care for asylum seekers, if the asylum procedure lasts longer than 12 months, 100%.

Development of basic services

In 2014, 39,000 people received basic public services, including 28,000 asylum seekers, and 11,000 former asylum seekers, whose procedures had already been completed, as short-term bridges and those in need of subsidiary protection. Around 200 million euros were spent on this, 150 of which went to the actual asylum seekers. Some of these sums go directly to the local donors, and some go to local consumption via those who are cared for. The cost per capita was around 420 euros per month, roughly half of the minimum income for Austrians (and recognized refugees).

In August 2015, in the course of the refugee crisis in Europe, around 50,000 asylum seekers in Austria were receiving basic services; this number had already been exceeded once during the Yugoslav wars. The number of pending asylum procedures rose to almost 80,000 by the end of this year, remained at this level in 2016, and was reduced to below 70,000 in the course of 2017.

The aim of the Austrian policy of the mid-2010s is not to let the average number of days of care of people in the basic care with the status of asylum procedure in 1st instance open (procedure by the Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum) exceed 175 days. In 2013 this value was 172 days. The second instance proceedings (appeals), 10% of the open cases in 2015, and around 20% in 2016, can take a lot longer. Therefore, one tries to find clear criteria when complaints are admissible.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Ministry of the Interior: Asylum in Austria, basic supply. (accessed June 28, 2015).
  2. ^ Fund Social Vienna: Basic supply. ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed June 28, 2015). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / Wohnen.fsw.at
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i State of Styria: Basic care for asylum seekers. in: Sozialserver Steiermark (accessed on June 28, 2015, updated on June 28, 2017) - exact breakdown of allowances and expenses per capita.
  4. ^ Asylum: The Expenditure of Styria. In: Kleine Zeitung online, April 22, 2015, accessed on June 28, 2015.
  5. ↑ Asylum approved. What now? In: www.salzburg.com. Salzburger Nachrichten, June 6, 2015, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved on July 10, 2017 (in particular what happens to recognized refugees? and How quickly do war refugees get asylum? ).
  6. ^ Asylum - More money for minors. In: noen.at . July 31, 2015, accessed February 23, 2020.
  7. ↑ Facebook myths and asylum reality - fact check in times of the "asylum freeze" (one and one is not three). news.ORF.at, June 15, 2015.
  8. ↑ a b BM.I: Asylstatistik 2016. Table of open procedures of the 1st and 2nd instance from 2012 - 2016 (31 December each) , p. 7 (pdf, on bmi.gv.at; for further documents on the subject see ibid . asylum system: Statistics ).
  9. ↑ number of asylum applications in Austria goes back. In: diepresse.com. June 12, 2017, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Federal budget 2014. Part - Subdivision 11 - Interior. Federal Ministry of Finance, 2014 (pdf, on service.bmf.gv.at).
  11. ↑ cf. the information on the Asylum Court, which was dissolved in 2014, for 2011: Inquiry ... regarding asylum procedures that have lasted for years. Received October 25, 2011, with an answer to openesparlament.at (accessed July 4, 2017); also: length and quality of asylum procedures. Amnesty Austria, undated (2011).