Overview

• Presidential chancellery chief Zbigniew Bogucki announced the signing after an August veto pushed the Tusk government to revise the package.
• The statute narrows assistance for Ukrainian citizens who are not employed in Poland by tying eligibility more tightly to work status.
• Non-working Ukrainians will be excluded from medical rehabilitation, spa or health treatment programs, prescription drug purchases, and medical and dental services under the aid scheme.
• Bogucki said this will be the last refugee-specific assistance law the president will sign, describing the system as tightened and no longer exceptional.
• The presidency plans to submit two bills to the Sejm on Monday, September 29, to lengthen the period before foreigners can apply for citizenship and to amend the Criminal Code and IPN law targeting promotion of “Banderite ideology” and false narratives about Volhynia.