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30 August 2023

Access to socio-economic rights for beneficiaries of temporary protection

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The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) published a comparative report providing an overview of access to socio-economic rights for temporary protection beneficiaries (TPBs) displaced from Ukraine.

The report analyses the situation in 19 EU member states and 3 non-EU countries (Serbia, Switzerland, United Kingdom), using data from the Asylum Information Database (AIDA). Key findings include the following:

Accommodation

  • The forms of accommodation made accessible to TPBs range from emergency accommodation and public reception facilities to private housing, and include accommodation with host families
  • New types of emergency accommodation were created via rearranged public spaces
  • The majority of states also provide financial support for access to private accommodation

Employment

  • Access to employment has been significantly facilitated by removing the requirement to obtain authorisation to work, provision of vocational training, language courses and career counselling
  • Administrative barriers remain, such as the need for recognition of qualifications, language barriers, and a lack of information on administrative procedures

Education

  • For children education is both a right and an obligation in most of the countries examined
  • Barriers to education include individual vulnerabilities, language skills, the limited capacity of schools, and long commutes to the place of study
  • Access to higher education has been supported by waived tuition fees and the establishment of ad hoc scholarships

Healthcare

  • TPBs have full access to the public healthcare system on equal terms with nationals
  • In certain countries beneficiaries of TP or equivalent schemes only have access to emergency medical care
  • Coverage and availability of insurance depends on employment status or age

Social welfare

  • In most countries, 'partial access' entitles TPBs to the same level of benefit support as subsidiary protection holders or asylum seekers
  • Available personal resources may represent a key criterion for defining the degree of access granted to social welfare and the amount of respective allowances
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Authors
Viktoryia Vaitovich, ECRE
Geographic area
EU Wide
Contributor type
Non-Governmental Organisations/Civil Society
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Olivia Long
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