Erroneous payments and high sick leave cost reimbursements

The party programme wants work to be organized so that everyone can contribute according to ability regardless of how we function physically or intellectually, and states that people with norm-breaking disabilities have higher unemployment. Removing compensation for high sick leave costs risks instead making employers more selective. The counter-proposal's line to instead develop compensation and address incorrect payments thus follows from the plan.

• everyone can contribute according to abilitydecisive»arbetet så att alla, oavsett hur vi fungerar fysiskt eller intellektuellt,« (party programme ↗)“work so that everyone, regardless of how we function physically or intellectually,”
• prevent exclusion from work»Människor med normbrytande funktionalitet har idag som grupp« (party programme ↗)“People with norm-breaking disabilities today as a group”
• humane sickness insurance»Vänsterpartiet vill se en mänsklig sjukförsäkring och ett slut på utförsäkrandet av sjuka.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The Left Party wants to see humane sickness insurance and an end to exclusion from the insurance of the sick.”
• workplace health reduces sick leave»arbetsmiljöarbete på alla arbetsplatser, också de som idag prioriterar« (party programme ↗)“workplace health and safety work at all workplaces, including those that today prioritize”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The election manifesto establishes that persons with disabilities shall be able to live like others and that work is central to participation, which speaks against a change that risks employers selecting against persons with illness history. At the same time, the plan wants to stop welfare crime and incorrect payments, which the counter-proposal addresses through targeted measures instead of abolishment. However, the plan does not address sick leave cost compensation, so the assessment is derived.

• work for persons with disabilitiesdecisive»Personer med funktionsnedsättning ska kunna leva sitt liv som andra. Arbete och sysselsättning är centralt för delaktigheten i samhället.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Persons with disabilities shall be able to live their lives like others. Work and employment are central to participation in society.”
• individually designed job measures»Vi vill se mer individuellt utformade insatser för att skapa jobb eller utbildning för personer med funktionsnedsättningar.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“We want to see more individually designed measures to create jobs or education for persons with disabilities.”
• stop incorrect payments»Skattefusk, välfärdsbrottslighet och penningtvätt ska stoppas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Tax fraud, welfare crime and money laundering shall be stopped.”
• long-term conditions for business»Stärk de långsiktiga förutsättningarna för företagande och innovation.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Strengthen the long-term conditions for business and innovation.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The party programme explicitly wants small enterprises to have less sickness benefit responsibility than larger enterprises and sees reduced or eliminated sickness benefit responsibility as an important reform for increased entrepreneurship. Eliminating compensation for high sickness benefit costs goes in the opposite direction and risks the discrimination of sick and disabled persons that the plan wants to counteract. The counter-proposal's line of developing instead of eliminating is therefore supported.

• less sickness benefit responsibility for small enterprisesdecisive»arbetsgivaravgift och mindre sjuklöneansvar än« (party programme ↗)“employer contribution and less sickness benefit responsibility than”
• reduced sickness benefit responsibility»minskat sjuklöneansvar viktiga reformer för ökat« (party programme ↗)“reduced sickness benefit responsibility important reforms for increased”
• counteract discrimination in the workplace»Diskriminering drabbar inte bara individen, utan« (party programme ↗)“Discrimination affects not only the individual, but”
• working environment before deductions»höja lönerna och säkra en god arbetsmiljö i vården« (2022 manifesto ↗)“raise wages and ensure a good working environment in care”

The plan's core commitment in this area is to make it cheaper and easier to hire, particularly people distant from the labour market, and for the party to be small business's best friend. A compensation protecting smaller employers against high sick-leave costs serves precisely this, which suggests developing it rather than removing it. The plan's requirement to economise with taxpayers' money simultaneously supports the counter-proposal's demand for measures against incorrect payments.

• cheaper to hiredecisive»Det måste bli billigare och lättare att anställa, särskilt personer som står långt från arbetsmarknaden.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“It must become cheaper and easier to hire, particularly people distant from the labour market.”
• small business conditions»Därför kommer Centerpartiet alltid att vara småföretagens bästa vän i svensk politik.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The Centre Party will therefore always be small business's best friend in Swedish politics.”
• security system adapted to entrepreneurs»Vi vill reformera trygghetssystemet så att fler kvinnor kan satsa på enreprenörskap och se till att statligt riskkapital fördelas mer jämställt.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“We want to reform the security system so that more women can pursue entrepreneurship and see to it that state venture capital is distributed more equally.”
• economise with tax funds»Politiken ska hushålla med skattebetalarnas pengar.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Policy shall economise with taxpayers' money.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan wants to ease companies' sickness benefit burden, primarily by abolishing the second sickness benefit week, and make it simpler and cheaper to hire. Abolishing compensation for high sickness benefit costs goes in the opposite direction, while the counter-proposal's line that instead develop the system and improve information exchange between authorities aligns with the plan. The substantive demand is thus supported.

• eased sickness benefit burdendecisive»I första hand bör ett avskaffande av den andra sjuklöneveckan prioriteras.« (party programme ↗)“First and foremost, abolishing the second sickness benefit week should be prioritized.”
• cheaper to hire»Därför vill vi att det ska bli enklare och billigare att anställa genom att arbetsgivaravgifterna sänks för både småföretagare och för dem som vill anställa unga.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Therefore, we want it to become simpler and cheaper to hire by lowering employer contributions for both small business owners and for those who want to hire young people.”
• information exchange between authorities»myndigheter effektivt kan dela information med varandra.« (party programme ↗)“authorities can efficiently share information with each other.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The counter-proposal wants to follow the National Audit Office's recommendations for strengthened coordination and better information exchange between authorities, which is close to the election manifesto's demand for a comprehensive review of confidentiality rules so that authorities can share information. The plan also requires that incoming laws be tested from a small business perspective and sees cost follow-up as an important political task.

• authorities shall share informationdecisive»Total översyn av sekretessreglerna, så att myndigheter kan dela uppgifter mellan sig för att förebygga och klara upp brott.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Comprehensive review of confidentiality rules, so that authorities can share information between them to prevent and solve crimes.”
• small business perspective in legislation»Tillkommande lagar bör prövas ur ett småföretagarperspektiv.« (party programme ↗)“Incoming laws should be tested from a small business perspective.”
• cost follow-up and control»Utvärdering, kostnadsuppföljning och kvalitetskontroll är därför viktiga politiska« (party programme ↗)“Evaluation, cost follow-up and quality control are therefore important political”
• against discrimination in working life»Väl fungerande lagar mot all diskriminering i arbetslivet ska finnas.« (party programme ↗)“Well-functioning laws against all discrimination in working life shall exist.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The election manifesto makes the fight against incorrect payments a main issue and sets the goal of halving benefit fraud, and the party programme establishes that public waste in all forms should be combated. An automated compensation with weak control options and significantly overrun costs is exactly such a payment the plan wants to address. Although easing employers' costs is a plan goal, the plan chooses targeted reductions over broad automatic replacements.

• stop incorrect paymentsdecisive(2022 manifesto)
• halved benefit fraud»I ett första steg är målet att halvera bidragsbrotten under nästa mandatperiod.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“In a first step, the goal is to halve benefit fraud during the next term.”
• combat public waste»Offentligt slöseri i alla former ska bekämpas.« (party programme ↗)“Public waste in all forms should be combated.”
• targeted reduced employment costs»Kraftigt sänka anställningskostnaderna för den som anställer nyanlända och långtidsarbetslösa« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Significantly reduce employment costs for those employing newly arrived and long-term unemployed”

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The plan wants to reduce sick leave costs for small businesses and points out that extensive sick leave responsibility can determine a small company's survival, which argues for maintaining and developing the compensation rather than abolishing it. Simultaneously, the plan requires coordination between relevant authorities and action against welfare crime in social insurance. The counter-proposal's line to fix the flaws rather than remove support thereby fits within the plan.

• lower sick leave costsdecisive»Sänka arbetsgivaravgiften och sjuklönekostnaderna för småföretag« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Lower employer contributions and sick leave costs for small businesses”
• sick leave responsibility burdens small businesses»Långtgående ansvar vid sjukskrivningar kan vara avgörande för ett litet företags överlevnadsmöjligheter.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Extensive responsibility for sick leave can be decisive for a small company's survival prospects.”
• coordination between authorities»Sverigedemokraterna vill också verka för ett mer samordnat system mellan berörda myndigheter för att enskilda inte ska komma i kläm.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Sweden Democrats also want to work for a more coordinated system between relevant authorities so that individuals are not caught in the middle.”
• against incorrect payments»Stoppa välfärdsbrottsligheten inom socialförsäkringen« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Stop welfare crime in social insurance”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.