Asylum Cost at record levels in 2020 – Swedish Dagbladet

compared with the year before the refugee crisis, 2014 is deemed migration policies in the average cost almost 50 billion more annually. In the picture the police monitors the queue of incoming refugees in the biting wind at the station Hyllie outside Malmö in November. Photo: Johan Nilsson / TT

– Obviously, it affects ability to implement reforms. The scope for reform that normally grows when you have a growth that now, it will naturally be less, says Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson (S).

Only after 2020 is expected to cost the state asylum reception and integration decline from the record high levels . Compared with the year before the refugee crisis, in 2014, estimated to migration policies in the average cost almost 50 billion more annually. It is as much as the Swedish defense costs.

– It’s not as if they had been able to use these 50 billion to other reforms, says Andersson, who pointed out that the state also would have saved more about migration costs had been lower.

Now, they are expected to public finances, meaning the state and municipalities, a deficit until 2019, according to the Government’s Spring fiscal Policy Bill. At the same time promises the government new reforms come to fulfill the promise of the EU’s lowest unemployment in 2020. The municipalities must also take ten billion from next year to strengthen welfare.

The Moderates ULF KRISTERSSON warns that the cost increases “forces like everything else if nothing is done “

– the government releases systematically grip on public finances.

the Finance Minister claims, however, that government finances are sound because it is a “temporary cost hump”. She is not concerned and expects a surplus in 2021. Large cutbacks in future budgets because of the refugee crisis is not up to date.

– It would not be appropriate to make major tax increases or savings to meet the cost, says Andersson.

the government’s spending estimates based at the Migration Board’s middle scenario, which means that 100 000 asylum seekers this year and 75,000 annually until 2020. currently seeking, however, about 500 persons applied for asylum in the week, is significantly lower than the government estimates.

Already this year, the Migration Board 31 billion in extra. The billions needed to meet housing costs, and benefits to asylum seekers.

– This is an insane priority, says SD’s economic-political spokesperson Oscar Sjöstedt.

He think that the Migration Board should make do without such a large increase in funding, though without specifying how to do it.

the government also proposes some minor funding increases for this year because of the refugees, to such money to the school premises, teaching, faster assessments of refugee education and more resources to enhance security in the asylum accommodation.

more money is also set aside to ensure that those who are rejected asylum applications also returning to their country. Police receive a supplement to cope with an increased workload and SAPO get more money to strengthen efforts against terrorism.