2026-05-262025/26:SfU26 · p.1SfUMigration & social insurance
Government's legislative proposal
Benefit ban and administrative sanction fee for incorrect social-insurance payments
What's at stake: The sanctions hit individuals who have received benefits on incorrect grounds: a fee on top of the repayment claim, plus a period barred from receiving benefits. Supporters argue that preventive measures cannot reach deliberate errors and that public trust in the welfare systems requires effective sanctions, while critics see a risk that people who made mistakes are hit hard by decisions taken by agencies.
Case texts and AI reasoning are AI-translated from the Swedish originals; the Swedish text is authoritative.
What the vote decides
The question is whether new sanctions — a benefit ban and an administrative sanction fee — should be introduced in social insurance to counter incorrect payments and benefit fraud, or whether the proposal should be turned down because the rule-of-law safeguards for individuals are considered insufficient.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The committee notes that there is a Riksdag-set target of reducing incorrect payments from the welfare systems and the crime directed at them, and that several measures have already been taken: a general provision breaking secrecy between agencies, expanded powers for the Social Insurance Agency and the Pensions Agency to obtain information, assignments in the agencies' appropriation directions to reduce the number of individuals facing repayment claims and to keep the legal quality of recovery decisions high, and an inquiry reviewing the recovery rules in the Social Insurance Code. Even so, the committee agrees with the government that these measures have not had sufficient effect. Preventive work probably has little effect on deliberate errors, which are estimated to lie behind a large share of the incorrect payments, and maintaining public trust in the welfare systems makes it crucial that benefit fraud and incorrect payments meet effective and appropriate sanctions. The committee therefore backs the government's bill on a benefit ban and a sanction fee.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 1 (V, MP)
The reservation (V, MP) wants the government's bill on a benefit ban and a sanction fee rejected. The reason is that the proposal does not contain sufficient rule-of-law safeguards for the individuals who may be hit by the new sanctions.
Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.
V–
S–
MP–
C–
L–
KD–
M–
SD–
YesNoAbstainAbsent
What do the votes mean here?
Yes The committee proposal: adopting the government's legislative proposal and rejecting the motions (keeping things as they are).
No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 1 by V, MP.
Abstain The party marks a position of its own that is not one of the two final alternatives.
The plan's stance / Actual vote
AI
Vote
Confidence
Evidence
Vown reservation
–
No 0/21/0/0
S
–
Yes 106/0/0/0
MPown reservation
–
No 0/18/0/0
C
–
Yes 24/0/0/0
L
–
Yes 16/0/0/0
KD
–
Yes 19/0/0/0
M
–
Yes 65/0/0/1
SD
–
Yes 69/0/0/1
Committee proposal
The Riksdag adopts the government's proposal for
1. act amending the Social Insurance Code,
2. act amending the Act (2008:145) on state dental care support,
3. act amending the Benefit Fraud Act (2007:612),
4. act on proceedings for administrative penalties in benefit fraud cases.
Thereby the Riksdag approves Parliament Bill 2025/26:210 paragraphs 1-4 and rejects motions
2025/26:4031 by Tony Haddou et al. (V) and
2025/26:4052 by Nils Seye Larsen et al. (MP).
Original (Swedish)
Riksdagen antar regeringens förslag till
1. lag om ändring i socialförsäkringsbalken,
2. lag om ändring i lagen (2008:145) om statligt tandvårdsstöd,
3. lag om ändring i bidragsbrottslagen (2007:612),
4. lag om talan om administrativ sanktionsavgift i mål om bidragsbrott.
Därmed bifaller riksdagen proposition 2025/26:210 punkterna 1-4 och avslår motionerna
2025/26:4031 av Tony Haddou m.fl. (V) och
2025/26:4052 av Nils Seye Larsen m.fl. (MP).
Riksdag decision: The Riksdag approved the government's proposal to introduce a penalty fee for those who in certain cases have caused an allowance to be paid incorrectly or in an excessive amount. The fee shall be charged to the person who has caused the allowance to be paid incorrectly or in an excessive amount by providing incorrect information or failing to fulfill a reporting or notification obligation.
The proposal also provides the possibility to decide on a deduction from the right to an allowance for a certain period, a so-called benefit deduction. Such a deduction may be decided for an individual who knowingly or through gross negligence has provided incorrect information or failed to fulfill a reporting or notification obligation.
The new rules enter into force on 1 July 2026, with certain transitional provisions.
Counter-proposals
The counter-proposal wants to reject the government's proposal due to insufficient legal safeguards. (V, MP) — Reservation 1