Stefan Löfven announced during his summer speech that the government wants the cost equalization between metropolitan areas and smaller municipalities to increase. Cost equalization will increase from SEK 9.7 to SEK 11 billion.

- This is extremely important for sparsely populated communities and sparsely populated regions. Therefore, we made the assessment that it is of the highest priority that this change, update and strengthening of the equalization take effect as soon as possible for the situation in many sparsely populated municipalities is urgent, says Minister of Civil Affairs Ardalan Shekarabi (S).

Proposals with some changes

The proposal is based on an investigation that was presented last year, but with some changes. Among other things, this is about extending the transition times for municipalities and regions affected by increased costs.

According to Ardalan Shekarabi, negotiations are ongoing to obtain broad support in the Riksdag.