The total costs include the work of employees in state and local offices, the cost for accepting and temporarily accommodating migrants, the costs connected to equipment and the costs for volunteers and municipalities.

The cost of one official asylum seeker stands at 385 euros per month. The sum includes a day of supplies amounting to 12,26 euros - multiplied by 30 days, and 18 euros of monthly pocket money. The Ministry of the Interior adds that an official asylum seeker can also be allowed to move into a private address. An asylum seeker without any means for living can be awarded financial aid. The amount of financial aid for private accommodation for an adult is 50 percent of the basic sum of a minimum wage (144,40 euros), 25 percent for every next adult family member and 35 percent for a child younger than 18 years of age. For an unaccompanied minor who seeks asylum the financial aid for private accommodation is 50 percent of the basic sum of a minimum wage.

Interior Ministry State Secretary Boštjan Šefic explained that the cost for a day of supplies does not include other fixed costs, like for example salaries etc. "It is solely the cost the state has for providing immediate care for the migrant (e.g. food)," he said. The Ministry of the Interior also explained what the costs were for a person who has been approved asylum. Those costs amount to 866,43 euros per month. The cost includes a one-time financial assistance given to the person in the first month only; right after the person is awarded an asylum status. That is 288,81 euros. The actual monthly cost the state has with a person awarded an asylum stats amounts to 577,62 euros. The new International Protection Act, which is already in parliamentary procedure, will see the abolishment of the one-time financial assistance.