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SKR warns that municipalities and regions are seriously affected by the current crown pandemic. Stock Photography.
Municipalities and regions are strongly affected financially by the current crown pandemic.
To ensure well-being, the government, among other things, needs to raise up to eight billion in government grants. This is what Anders Knape, President of Sweden’s Municipalities and Regions (SKR) writes about the DN debate.
In a new economic report, released Monday, the authority warns that the recession in society may persist and that the economy will not recover until 2023.
“The financial consequences of covid-19 are currently difficult to overlook. The only thing we can say for sure is that there will be some extra difficult years ahead,” Anders Knape writes in the discussion article.
In order to support municipalities and regions and maintain what they mean is good well-being, Knape lists four measures for the government.
Anders Knape wants to see an increase in general government subsidies to municipalities and regions by SEK 8 billion by 2021, which will compensate for the extraordinary loss of revenue for the country’s public transport and that cooperation between the Service will be strengthened Public Employment and municipalities.
It also wants the government to introduce more initiatives into the labor market and to ensure that municipalities and regions are compensated for the reasonable additional costs for covid-19 in health care and social services.
“An extraordinary crisis requires extraordinary efforts. And it requires every effort possible,” writes Knape, among other things.
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