Asylum Act
(AsylA)

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall com­pensate the can­tons for the costs of im­ple­ment­ing this Act by means of flat-rate pay­ments. The can­tons do not re­ceive the sub­sidies in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 91–93b.²³⁹

² The flat-rate pay­ments made in re­spect of per­sons seek­ing asylum and in need of pro­tec­tion without a res­id­ence per­mit shall cov­er, in par­tic­u­lar, the costs of so­cial as­sist­ance and of man­dat­ory health in­sur­ance and also con­tain a con­tri­bu­tion to­wards the su­per­vi­sion costs.

³ The flat-rate pay­ments made in re­spect of refugees and per­sons in need of pro­tec­tion with a res­id­ence per­mit and refugees sub­ject to a leg­ally en­force­able ex­pul­sion or­der in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 66a or 66a^bis SCC²⁴⁰ or Art­icle 49a or 49a^bis MCC²⁴¹ or a leg­ally en­force­able ex­pul­sion or­der un­der Art­icle 68 FNIA²⁴² shall cov­er, in par­tic­u­lar, the costs of so­cial as­sist­ance and also con­tain a con­tri­bu­tion to­wards the su­per­vi­sion and ad­min­is­trat­ive costs.²⁴³ They shall be made for a max­im­um of five years from the date of sub­mis­sion of the asylum ap­plic­a­tion.²⁴⁴

^3bis The Con­fed­er­a­tion may make flat-rate pay­ments un­der para­graph 3 for longer than five years in re­spect of per­sons ad­mit­ted to Switzer­land un­der asylum gran­ted to groups of refugees, and in par­tic­u­lar when these per­sons are dis­abled or eld­erly.²⁴⁵

⁴ Pay­ments made in re­spect of per­sons who are only en­titled to emer­gency aid un­der Art­icle 82 are com­pens­a­tion for grant­ing emer­gency aid.²⁴⁶

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