The appropriations counted as aid in expenditure area 8 ‘Migration’ do not include such costs. The costs included in the ODA reporting are allowances directly targeting asylum seekers or municipalities and regions and are based on the number of asylum seekers, or they compensate for actual costs for measures asylum seekers have benefited from. The costs in the Swedish Migration Agency’s administrative appropriation (appropriation 1:1), ‘Legal counsels etc. for court hearings’ (1:5) and ‘Public counsel in aliens cases’ (1:6) do not include costs for activities that people other than asylum seekers can benefit from. <br />The appropriation counted as aid in expenditure area 14 ‘Labour market and working life’ does not include such costs either. The costs included in the ODA reporting are individual allowances – Introduction benefit to certain newly arrived immigrants (1:14) – which directly target individuals and do not include costs for activities that people other than asylum seekers can benefit from.