Access to family benefits Families from other countries for whom legislators have complicated access to family benefits have difficulty asserting their rights even when they meet the requirements. An administrative practice that has been stipulated as unlawful by the AOB prevents this access although the rulings of the Independent Financial Tribunal coincide with the AOB’s viewpoints. Most recently, some partial successes have been achieved in favour of those entitled to subsidiary protection, but otherwise all of the available remedies to correct maladministration determined by the AOB have been exhausted (see p. 80). Amendment realized Referring to a recommendation made by the AOB, Art. III (1) (3) of the Introductory Act to the Administrative Procedure Acts 1991 was revised so that now more efficient prosecution and punishment of discriminatory practices should be possible. In the future namely, the parties involved no longer need to prove that they had been penalised with regard to their access to public assets and services “solely” due to their ethnic origin. 32