Norway tightens requirements for Ukrainian refugees: what is known
Kyiv • UNN
Norway is reviewing conditions for Ukrainian refugees to limit their inflow, including housing, family benefits and travel rules, and is also tightening up checks on compliance with residency requirements.
Norway has decided to change the conditions for Ukrainians with temporary protection in order not to to attract new people to the country. This is reported by NRK, according to UNN.
Details
The changes, in particular, will affect housing conditions, payments to families with conditions, payments to families with children and the possibility of traveling home to Ukraine.
Thus, they want to cancel the retroactive payment of social assistance for child for the first 12 months of stay in the country, which is paid after the extension of temporary residence permit at the end of the first year (and at the same time families may receive new monthly payments). Transitional conditions for families, who are already in Norway at the time of the changes are still being finalized.
Control over traveling home to Ukraine by those who receive social benefits in Norway and have a social benefits and have a residence permit - so that people who receive payments actually reside in Norway most of the time. Trips home will need to be will need to be justified, and if they contradict the terms of the residence permit, this may lead to the loss of the residence permit.
Newcomers in need of accommodation will have to apply exclusively to the National Reception Center in the municipality of Rode. The option of accommodation in hotels and recreation centers will no longer be available if people have traveled to another region - the National Reception Center becomes the only "entry point" to get accommodation, and accommodation in hotels is planned to be abandoned altogether,
They also want to introduce a certain "waiting period" before people will have access to the full package of social support.
The main reason for the revision of the rules was the great interest in Norway Ukrainians who left for Europe because of the war and more favorable conditions than in in neighboring countries. Thus, as of August, payments for Ukrainians in Norway were 2-4 times higher than those in Sweden and about twice as high as in Denmark.
Supplement
Over the past two months, 50% more Ukrainians have come to Norway to apply for temporary protection 50% more Ukrainians than in Denmark, Sweden, and Finland, so the country is experiencing is experiencing an increasingly heavy load on the system.
In Denmark, according to the latest data, 56% of Ukrainians are officially 56% of Ukrainians with temporary protection are officially employed, while in Norway this figure from August to October dropped from 19.3% to 18.1%.
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