In the series "Försäkringskassan", Marie-Louise Järlesand, 56, told about her difficult situation.

Due to the disease gastroparesis, she lives with severe stomach pain and vomits several times a day.

After five years, she lost her sickness benefit, because the Swedish Social Insurance Agency considered that she could take a so-called "normally occurring job".

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She vomits every day from the disease - is asked to take a job

The Court of Appeal in Gothenburg has now decided the case - and overturned the Swedish Social Insurance Agency's decision.

- It was like a big mountain slipping from his shoulders.

I had to read it several times, it's really right, says Marie-Louise Järlesand.

“Should have been obvious”

"The Court of Appeal considers that the overall medical investigation in the case shows that Marie-Louise Järlesand's complaints during the period were so pronounced that she lacked the ability to cope with a normally occurring gainful employment in the labor market," the judgment states.

- I see the profit as something that should have been obvious from the beginning.

And given how few individuals who receive leave to appeal in the Court of Appeal, it is a second chance many do not get, says Gustav Sjöberg, federal lawyer at LO-TCO Rättsskydd AB.

The decision applies to the first period of denied sickness benefit from 2018, which Marie-Louise has appealed and she has now been paid approximately two and a half months retroactively.

- Hopefully it can have effects for future periods, we will see this relatively soon, says Gustav Sjöberg.

“Feels good in the heart”

Marie-Louise Järlesand says that people from all over Sweden heard about the programs.

- There have been so many flowers and gratitude.

But many are saddened by how things are going in this country.

What do you think now that you won in the end?

- I'm very happy it's me, but it does not feel like you have come all the way yet.

But this feels good in the heart, says Marie-Louise.

New trial

An application for sickness compensation will now be tried by the administrative court in Karlstad, where there will be an oral hearing.

In connection with the publication of the series “Försäkringskassan”, reactions also came from a political point of view, when Uppdrag granskning invited representatives from the Social Insurance Committee to a debate:

- It is quite rare for us as politicians to comment on individual cases.

When I see this report and Marie-Louise's situation, it becomes obvious to me that Marie-Louise should have sickness benefit or sickness compensation, Rikard Larsson (S) told SVT.

Försäkringskassan's director general Nils Öberg promises changes to the authority's work and writes in a debate article that “one must be able to trust that Försäkringskassan manages social insurance flawlessly.

It takes time to state that, but we are not there today. "

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Watch the entire series “Försäkringskassan” on SVT Play.