Asylum Seekers Being Blocked Out of Job Market and Health System in Greece

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Bulgaria: Asylum Seekers Being Blocked Out of Job Market and Health System in Greece epa/bgnes

Thousands of asylum seekers trapped in Greece by slow bureaucracy are facing problems in being issued a social security number and tax identification code that would allow them to look for work and have access to public healthcare as they wait for the applications to be processed, writes Ekathimerini. 

The issue was brought to the forefront in a written complaint on Thursday signed by 25 nongovernmental organizations and addressed to the ministries of Migration, Interior, Health, Administrative Reform, Labor, Economy and Finance.

The NGOs also claim to have received complaints from asylum seekers who were denied these documents outright or asked to produce impossible documents that could only be provided by state services in their war-torn home countries.

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Tags: Migration, interior, health, administrative reform, labor, Economy and Finance., NGO, greece, asylum seekers

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