(MENAFN- Saudi Press Agency) BUDAPEST Hungary Jumada I 28 1437 March 08 2016 SPA -- Hungary is planning to cut cash and other subsidies for asylum-seekers reduce the individual space they are allotted in detention centers to the size given prison inmates and scrap measures designed to help them integrate into society according to draft legislation published Monday. AP reported.
The government said its amendments to government decrees and the Asylum Act were designed to bring the rights and payments given to refugees in line with those offered to Hungarians.
But the Hungarian Helsinki Committee a human rights group said the government's true aim was to discourage those granted asylum in Hungary to stay.
Other proposed measures include cutting from two months to one month the time that asylum recipients can stay in state-funded reception centers and reducing their eligibility for state-paid health care services from one year to six months.
The amendments taking effect April 1 would ban asylum-seekers from working in reception centers eliminate school enrollment benefits and take away their monthly cash stipend of 7125 forints ($25.30).
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01:50 LOCAL TIME 22:50 GMT
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