To be entitled to support according to LSS, one must have "significant difficulties in daily living and extensive need for support".
This condition can be interpreted differently in each individual municipality, which in the long run means that people with disabilities receive free accompaniment in some municipalities, while others have to pay.
In Ida-Maria Engberg's case, this means that she may have to drop out of her teacher studies in Uppsala, as she does not receive guidance in that municipality despite her severe visual impairment.
- It has become a common problem, people do not dare to move from municipality to municipality because it becomes so difficult to get the services you need to cope with everyday life.
It will be an isolation.
It is terrible, says Wieslaw Wasowski, who believes that it has become increasingly difficult for the visually impaired to get a concession granted.
Hear him tell more about how the rules around LSS can cause problems for the visually impaired in the clip.