Recently, the Swedish Social Insurance Agency conducted a review of the Swedish Social Insurance Agency.
It is about activity compensation for young people with a disability.
Several of the employees at Försäkringskassan who have been interviewed in the review give a picture that the assessments have become stricter.
Incorrect wording
The Swedish Social Insurance Agency (ISF) has also discovered a wording that may indicate that the Swedish Social Insurance Agency interprets the law too harshly.
In order to receive activity compensation, you must have a reduced ability to work for at least one year.
- The legislation has a burden of proof where it must be possible to "assume" that the ability to work has been reduced for at least one year, says Lisa Carlsson, investigator at ISF.
"Higher requirements than what the law says"
But in several of the decisions, the ISF has found a completely different wording.
It states that the documents do not "prove" that the ability to work has been impaired for at least one year.
- If you use a higher set of evidentiary requirements than what the legislation states, then you set higher requirements than what the law says, says Lisa Carlsson.
20 percent of decisions
In 20 percent of the reviewed decisions, this incorrect wording is included.
- We can not say that they have made a mistake in the case, but we believe that it is formulated incorrectly in the decision letter, says investigator Lisa Carlsson.
See when Försäkringskassan's head comments on the criticism in the video above.