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Minister of Social Security Ardalan Shekarabi (S). Stock Photography.
A record number of people are denied sickness benefit after 180 days, when the ability to work must be proven across the entire job market, reports Swedish radio Ekot.
So far this year, 40 percent of these illnesses, 21,000 people, have resulted in rejection, compared to 29 percent last year. In 2015, the rejection rate was 10 percent.
Social Security Minister Ardalan Shekarabi (S) believes that development is serious.
– The fact is that now we have a substantial increase and then it is before we start to see the effects that are associated with the long-term disease due to covid-19, he tells Swedish radio.
An investigation from January this year has proposed several changes, including that the ability to work be evaluated against “normal work” expressed in a concrete way rather than what critics call “theoretical jobs that do not exist.”
Ardalan Shekarabi claims that the government is working on changes.
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