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Bilaterals III / Impacts / Additional social assistance costs due to the right of permanent residence

Social assistance

Additional social assistance costs due to the right of permanent residence

first-orderquantified↑ risespartly reversibleCantons and communes (social assistance)

Anyone who has acquired the right of permanent residence can receive social assistance without losing their right of residence. The costs are borne mainly by the cantons and communes.

Machine translation · German original

Wer das Daueraufenthaltsrecht erworben hat, kann Sozialhilfe beziehen, ohne das Aufenthaltsrecht zu verlieren. Die Kosten tragen vor allem Kantone und Gemeinden.

65CHF m per yearexample value

Acceptance of the proposal · low 56 · central 65 · high 74

Acceptance of the proposal: 56 to 74Acceptance of the proposal020406080
Unit: CHF m per year
Sources0.8Causality0.6Model0.5Measurement0.6Overall0.6
Period
Methodology
Range from the regulatory impact assessment that Ecoplan prepared on behalf of the SEM, based on figures for the years 2015–2019. Low and high are the study's two scenarios; central is the midpoint of the range, not a figure from the study. Taken over, not calculated independently.
Analysis run
Seed v1 – Bilaterals III · 12.09.2026
Published
12.09.2026

Evidence for the estimate (1)

Evidence for the impact (1)

context

Nach der Teilübernahme der UBRL erfüllen gemäss Berechnungen fünf Jahre nach Einführung bis zu 570’000 EU/EFTA-Bürgerinnen und -Bürger in der Schweiz die Kriterien für das Daueraufenthaltsrecht, da viele bereits eine fünfjährige Aufenthalts- und Erwerbstätigendauer unter der UBRL aufweisen.