2026-04-152025/26:SfU16 · p.25SfUMigration & social insurance
Reception of asylum seekers
Reception of asylum seekers – self-arranged housing (EBO)
What's at stake: The decision affects where and how asylum seekers may live during the asylum process, and whether they lose the right to financial assistance if they live elsewhere than their assigned accommodation. It concerns the balance between an orderly, controllable reception system and asylum seekers' ability to live with, for example, relatives.
Case texts and AI reasoning are AI-translated from the Swedish originals; the Swedish text is authoritative.
What the vote decides
The question is whether the option for asylum seekers to arrange their own housing should be phased out entirely, with exceptions only in very limited cases, or whether the current rules and the ongoing preparation of a new reception act should remain in place for now.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The committee rejects the motions and notes that the self-arranged housing system in its earlier form has already been phased out: asylum seekers now generally only have the right to financial assistance if they live at their assigned accommodation. The committee does not want to pre-empt the ongoing preparation of a new reception act and reaches the same assessment as the previous year.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 31 (S)
The reservation (S) wants the government to come back with a proposal to fully phase out the option of self-arranged housing for asylum seekers, retaining it only for very limited exceptional cases, since the current restrictions are not considered sufficient.
Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.
V–
S–
MP–
C–
L–
KD–
M–
SD–
YesNoAbstainAbsent
What do the votes mean here?
Yes The committee proposal: rejecting the motions (keeping things as they are).
No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 31 by S.
Abstain The party marks a position of its own that is not one of the two final alternatives.
The plan's stance / Actual vote
AI
Vote
Confidence
Evidence
V
–
Abstain 0/0/18/4
Sown reservation
–
No 0/91/0/15
MP
–
Abstain 0/0/15/3
C
–
Abstain 0/0/20/4
L
–
Yes 13/0/0/3
KD
–
Yes 16/0/0/3
M
–
Yes 56/0/0/10
SD
–
Yes 61/0/0/9
Committee proposal
Parliament rejects the motions
2025/26:488 by Ingela Nylund Watz et al. (S),
2025/26:1064 by Lawen Redar (S),
2025/26:1182 by Kerstin Lundgren (C),
2025/26:1215 by Eva Lindh et al. (S),
2025/26:2447 by Sten Bergheden (M),
2025/26:2798 by Tony Haddou et al. (V) provisions 24 and 26,
2025/26:3190 by Jonny Cato et al. (C) provision 11,
2025/26:3362 by Annika Hirvonen et al. (MP) provisions 20, 37 and 38,
2025/26:3584 by Mattias Vepsä et al. (S) provision 7,
2025/26:3587 by Ida Karkiainen et al. (S) provision 6 and
2025/26:3592 by Ardalan Shekarabi et al. (S) provision 4.
Original (Swedish)
Riksdagen avslår motionerna
2025/26:488 av Ingela Nylund Watz m.fl. (S),
2025/26:1064 av Lawen Redar (S),
2025/26:1182 av Kerstin Lundgren (C),
2025/26:1215 av Eva Lindh m.fl. (S),
2025/26:2447 av Sten Bergheden (M),
2025/26:2798 av Tony Haddou m.fl. (V) yrkandena 24 och 26,
2025/26:3190 av Jonny Cato m.fl. (C) yrkande 11,
2025/26:3362 av Annika Hirvonen m.fl. (MP) yrkandena 20, 37 och 38,
2025/26:3584 av Mattias Vepsä m.fl. (S) yrkande 7,
2025/26:3587 av Ida Karkiainen m.fl. (S) yrkande 6 och
2025/26:3592 av Ardalan Shekarabi m.fl. (S) yrkande 4.
Riksdag decision: Parliament voted no on 157 proposals in motions on migration matters from the general motion period 2025.
The proposals deal with, among other things, family immigration and the asylum process.
Parliament refers, among other things, to ongoing work in the areas that the proposals address.
Counter-proposals
The counter-proposal wants to restrict Russian tourist visas through administrative measures such as longer processing times and more restrictive assessments. (S) — Reservation 31
Motion 2025/26:137 — Pushfaktorer för invandrare att frivilligt lämna Sverige av Josef Fransson (SD)
Motion 2025/26:1452 — Kortare väntetider för att kunna få jobb i Sverige av Sten Bergheden (M)
Motion 2025/26:1465 — Rättssäkerhet för barn som växer upp i Sverige av Magnus Jacobsson (KD)
Motion 2025/26:1520 — Utvärdering och förtydligande av religionsfrihetens gränser för att motverka normkollisioner och värna det öppna samhället av Emma Ahlström Köster (M)
Motion 2025/26:1555 — Obligatoriskt PCR-prov där samhället så kräver av Ann-Sofie Lifvenhage (M)
Motion 2025/26:1642 — Medborgarskapsceremoni och lojalitetsförklaring av Stefan Olsson (M)
Motion 2025/26:1664 — Säkerställ verkställighet av utvisningsbeslut av Emma Ahlström Köster (M)
Motion 2025/26:1697 — En sanningskommission om migrationspolitiken av Staffan Eklöf (SD)
Motion 2025/26:1750 — Förändring av svensk och europeisk asylpolitik av Jan Ericson och Boriana Åberg (båda M)
Motion 2025/26:1751 — Automatisk utvisning av utländska brottslingar av Boriana Åberg (M)
Motion 2025/26:1752 — Reformering av flyktingkonventionen av Boriana Åberg (M)