As a general rule, you must be able to support yourself financially. If you do not earn your own money or have other assets, you can apply for financial support from the Swedish Migration Agency. You are entitled to financial support from the day that the Swedish Migration Agency has registered your application for protection under the Temporary Protection Directive. The money you receive from the Swedish Migration Agency is intended to cover your food, clothes and personal expenses.
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You can apply for financial support when you visit a Swedish Migration Agency office or by submitting an application form to the Swedish Migration Agency by post. If you are also applying for financial support for your children, you must fill in one form per person. The Swedish Migration Agency can grant financial support at the earliest from the day you apply for it.
Married and cohabiting couples share responsibility for the family's finances. This means that the Swedish Migration Agency will also take your partner's income into account when assessing whether or not you have the right to financial support. If you are receiving financial support from the Swedish Migration Agency, it is important that you tell the Swedish Migration Agency if your financial situation changes, for example, if you get a job or move to new accommodation. A change of address may mean that the level of financial support you receive needs to be changed. It is a criminal offence not to inform us that you or your partner are earning money at the same time as you are paid a daily allowance.
You can apply for two different forms of financial support from the Swedish Migration Agency: daily allowance and special allowance.
Daily allowance
The amount of daily allowance paid out varies depending on whether or not your accommodation includes food. The amount of daily allowance paid out also depends on whether you live together with a spouse or partner.
In accommodation where food is included, the daily allowance is
- 24 SEK/day for a single adult
- 19 SEK/day per person for cohabiting and married couples who live together
- 19 SEK/day per person for young adults aged 18–20 who live with their parents
- 12 SEK/day for children up to and including the age of 17 years.
In accommodation where food is not included, the daily allowance is
- 71 SEK/day for a single adult
- 61 SEK/day per person for cohabiting and married couples who live together
- 61 SEK/day per person for young adults aged 18–20 who live with their parents
- 50 SEK/day for children aged 11–17 years
- 43 SEK/day for children aged 4–10 years
- 37 SEK/day for children aged 0–3 years.
Families with more than two children receive full daily allowance for the two oldest children and half a daily allowance for the other children.
In addition to food, the daily allowance needs to cover clothing and shoes, medical care and medicine, dental care, hygiene items, other consumables and leisure activities.
Application for daily allowance, form Mot23 (in Swedish)
Pdf, 1.1 MB, opens in new window.
How to fill out the daily allowance form
Special grant
If you have a great need for something that is not covered by the daily allowance, you can apply for a special grant for it. You must prove that you have a great need for the item or service and that you cannot pay for it yourself. For example, it could be glasses, a pram or warm winter shoes. The Swedish Migration Agency will always make an individual assessment of your need.
You can only get a grant for the cheapest options required to meet the need.
Your right to a special grant may be affected if you move to your own accommodation in an area that is on the Swedish Migration Agency's list of areas with social and economic challenges.
Application for a special grant, form Mot78 (in Swedish) Pdf, 1.1 MB, opens in new window.
How to fill out the special grant form
Bank card
If you are granted daily allowance from the Swedish Migration Agency, you will receive a bank card that is linked to the account where the money is put in. Only the Swedish Migration Agency can put money into this account. If you want to open a Swedish bank account where, for example, an employer can put in money, you must contact a Swedish bank.
Decision on financial support
Once the Swedish Migration Agency has made a decision on financial support, you will be informed of the decision
- through a case officer at your Unit for Reception or
- through a system called simplified notification.
When the Swedish Migration Agency notifies you via simplified service, we will send the decision by post to the address you have given us. The next business day, we will send a new letter with a verification message to the same address, informing you that we have sent you our decision. The verification message states the date on which the decision was sent. Two weeks after the decision was sent, the Swedish Migration Agency considers that you have been notified of the decision. After that, you have three weeks to appeal the decision.
Remember to check your mail/post regularly.