LSS stands for the Act on Support and Service for Certain Disabled People and a reform of this 1994 gave the visually impaired the right to attend. Then Mona Nilsson also got help with shopping, reading letters and being able to go out to social activities. Now that Mona has had the support for 25 years, the Municipality of Partille suddenly changes and rejects her new application, even though Mona has stated the same need for assistance as in previous applications.
- It feels humiliating and offensive. Like I'm not taken seriously, says Mona Nilsson.
She thinks that she is still as blind as before.
- I don't want to live a luxury life, I just want an ordinary life. I need help reading mail, marking up goods and sometimes I need help online. Outdoors, I need help with interpreting what you see and what happens around you, she says.
How will you feel if you lose this support now?
- It's like the municipality putting one in the footstool on me, she says.
Municipality: "Based on case law"Partille Municipality justifies the decision that there is a guiding judgment in the Supreme Administrative Court of 2011.
"We are based on case law and that is what has made it a refusal," says Erica Hägg, head of administration for the health and care administration in Partille municipality.
But has Mona Nilsson been awarded compensation several times after 2011?
- Yes, then you can say at the same time that she should have been rejected earlier, says Erica Hägg.
Alireza G Alipour, chairman of the Visually Impaired National Association in Gothenburg, thinks that this explanation does not hold. You can read more here.