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More than Half of the Recipients Are Foreign

The City of Reykjavík's total expenditure on financial assistance to individuals amounted to 3,429 million ISK last year, decreasing by 669 million from 2024.
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Rúm 63% of those who were in Reykjavík's city aid program last year are foreign nationals. Most of them are Ukrainians. There will be Palestinians next, then people from Venezuela and there will be Poles. A total of 766 Ukrainians got immigration assistance, 168 Palestinians, 146 from Venezuela and 115 Poles. Íslendingar voru 953. Heildarútgydal væða framfærðuræstilätar voru around 2.6 billion in 2025 and were 3.2 billion the year before. This a…

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Icelanders made up 44.3% of the 3,408 individuals who received financial assistance from the City of Reykjavík last year. Other beneficiaries were of foreign origin, most of them from Ukraine, or 790. This is stated in the response of the Reykjavík City Welfare Department to a question from Helgi Áss Grétarsson, a deputy mayor of the Central Party who sits on the Welfare Council. Helgi Áss reported on the main findings in an interview […] The ar…

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The City of Reykjavík's total expenditure on financial assistance to individuals amounted to 3,429 million ISK last year, decreasing by 669 million from 2024.

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Fréttir - mbl.is broke the news in Reykjavík, Iceland on Thursday, November 5, 2026.
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