SVT Nyheter Öst has for a long time examined the support for young adults with a disability who are unable to work full time.

The review showed, among other things, that the Swedish Social Insurance Agency suddenly made a harsher assessment without either laws or case law having changed.

The consequences were that people between the ages of 19 and 29 were completely without compensation, even though they have a disability.

The Swedish Social Insurance Agency gets homework

Now SVT Nyheter Öst has gone through almost a thousand judgments to produce completely new statistics.

It shows that the courts give the Swedish Social Insurance Agency a lesson in terms of activity compensation in as many as 23 percent of cases.

- 23 percent are surprised!

In many other types of cases, we almost never change because the authority's decisions are often correct, says Mats Edsgården, chief councilor in Linköping.

What does it depend on?

Click on the video above.

"The assessment must be reality-based"

In 2019, a guiding ruling was issued by the Supreme Administrative Court, which established how the working capacity of people with a disability should be assessed: Just because you can manage an employment with a lot of support and adjustments, you do not have the working capacity, according to the court.

The key is that an employer is willing to pay for the contribution.

- That verdict is so clear.

And it also says that the assessment must be reality-based.

But I have had several cases where people who have daily activities lose their activity compensation, even though daily activities are an employment, not a job, says lawyer Erik Ward.

In the video above, he talks about some of his errands.

Försäkringskassan does not want to set up an interview with SVT but instead answers our questions in writing in an email:

“Försäkringskassan is currently conducting a major screening of our entire management of health insurance benefits, and this includes both activity compensation and sickness compensation.

We know that our investigations need to get better and we also know that we need to get better at motivating our decisions. ”

"The screening also includes looking at how we work with guiding judgments so that they have an impact in our application and how we can give our administrators better support in their work," Försäkringskassan writes to SVT.