Asylum Act
(AsylA)

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­term­ine the level of the flat-rate pay­ments based on the prob­able ex­pendit­ures on cost-ef­fect­ive solu­tions.

² It shall de­term­ine the struc­ture and the dur­a­tion of the flat-rate pay­ments as well as the ne­ces­sary re­quire­ments. It may in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

de­term­ine the flat-rate pay­ments on the basis of res­id­ence status and the dur­a­tion of res­id­ence;

b.

ad­just the flat-rate pay­ments to take ac­count of the cost dif­fer­ences between the can­tons.

³ SEM may make the dis­burse­ment of in­di­vidu­al com­pon­ents of the flat-rate pay­ments sub­ject to the achieve­ment of so­cio-polit­ic­al goals.

⁴ The flat-rate pay­ments shall be peri­od­ic­ally ad­jus­ted in line with in­fla­tion and re­viewed if ne­ces­sary.