COA wants asylum seekers pay if they renounce sleeping – Elsevier

                 
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                             Servaas van der Laan
                         
                     
                 
 
                 
                     Aug 15, 2015

                 The Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum seekers will often sleep with family or friends, pay to give up sleep where they are entitled to.
             

The employees are from refugee centers in the Netherlands, with hands in her hair. Can now meet weekly for asylum in 1700 where with difficulty sleeping for found.

At the same time about 10 percent of the beds in the shelters structurally empty. These are beds of asylum seekers with a (temporary) residence permit who prefer to sleep with friends or family. But because it ‘right’ to these beds may not be filled by others.

Financial

Therefore, the COA will require applicants who are already ‘ overnight stay away provide financial compensation if they renounce the bed that they rarely use. In this way, space is made for new asylum seekers can.

The problem of overcrowded centers is caused by the increasing growth on the one hand and stagnant flow on the other side. Of the 28,000 asylum seekers who are staying in shelters, about half have a (temporary) residence permit. They can not always move on to their own home, because municipalities do not have enough available social housing. Many asylum seekers wait so in the shelter until they are assigned a home.

Criticism

The so-called ‘self-care arrangement “is used once before, in the late nineties under then Secretary Job Cohen (PvdA). The plan came after objections from the Association of Dutch Municipalities (VNG), who said losing the overview and to fear the formation of large concentrations of refugees in one place. The same concerns now playing again.

Refugee Netherlands is positive about the plan. “We know this in the past. If it is voluntary and anyone who is entitled to a place can always return, we have no objection to this measure, “says a spokesman for the NIS. “Especially since we see that the inflow is now very high. There are many shelter places needed. For some people this is very good. In an asylum seekers’ center you can but difficult to integrate, the sooner you will be living among the Dutch, the better it is. “

Solutions

The self-care arrangement is one of the measures that Secretary of State for Asylum Klaas Dijkhoff (VVD) after the weekend will disclose in a letter to parliament.

In the letter, other solutions have been proposed to reduce the surplus in the shelters.