In the government's budget, half a million pensioners receive a guarantee supplement of SEK 1,000 a month.
The right-wing opposition gives a lower increase but goes to more pensioners.
There are no oceans between the parties' proposals, but despite this it is very difficult to agree on a compromise.
According to Mats Knutson, there are several reasons behind this.
- There are different views on how the pension should be raised, but also that we are approaching an election and then it is more difficult to agree on political issues.
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