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Today SKR presents a report on the economy of Sweden’s municipalities and regions. In this, they expect an increase in unemployment of just under 9 percent this year and that the tax base will increase only 0.9 percent compared to 4 percent, which has been the average of the last ten years.
in Debate DN SKR President Anders Knape writes that the expected deficits of the regions are largely due to reduced travel on public transport and that, for municipalities, this is increased financial assistance coupled with higher unemployment and a higher cost of social services.
“An extraordinary loss of income”
Anders Knape presents four measures that SKR wants the government to take to reduce the effects of the crown pandemic in the country’s municipalities and regions.
The first is to increase subsidies from the general government by an additional SEK 8 billion to municipalities and regions by 2021. The second is that the state must compensate for “an extraordinary loss of revenue” for the country’s public transport as a result of the reduction in travel during the pandemic.
The third measure that SKR wants to see is that the collaboration between the Employment Service and the municipalities be strengthened, among other things through investments in education and vocational training. Finally, SKR wants the state to ensure that municipalities and regions are reimbursed for “reasonable additional costs for covid-19” in health and social services.
