The obligation includes reimbursing all public funds spent for living expenses, including housing, care in case of illness or need for long-term care, e.g. expenses for food, clothing, housing (private or in a hotel), for physicians, medicine, hospital, nursing home or other medically necessary treatments. This also applies to expenditures made on the basis of legal entitlement, as opposed to expenditures based on contributions paid. It is advisable to take out health insurance coverage for the reasons given.
The obligation also includes expenses arising from the possible enforcement of the requirement to leave the country under Sections 66 and 67 of the Residence Act. These expenses include for example travel expenses (airline ticket and/or other transport costs), the cost of any security escort and of custody awaiting deportation.