2026-03-252025/26:SfU17 · p.8SfUMigration & social insurance

Social security protection for pregnant women

Social-insurance protection for pregnant employees and self-employed people

What's at stake: Toward the end of pregnancy, an employee or self-employed person may need to stop working for health reasons without always qualifying for today's means-tested benefit, and the current income cap limits how much higher earners can receive. An expansion would give more pregnant women a more secure income ahead of birth.

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 social-insurance protection for pregnant women should be expanded with a non-means-tested pregnancy benefit shortly before birth and a higher income cap, or whether the current rules should remain unchanged pending further preparation.

Yes Yes — the committee proposal

The committee describes how parental-insurance benefit levels and conditions of use have recently been reviewed and tied more closely to an actual loss of income from work, and points out that several proposals to expand benefits within parental insurance are still being prepared within government offices; against that background, the call for a new, non-means-tested pregnancy benefit and a higher income cap is rejected.

No No — the reservations

Reservation 20 (S)

The reservation (S) calls for the government to proceed with the proposals from the review of a more modern social-insurance protection for pregnant women: a non-means-tested pregnancy benefit should be usable during the final days before the expected birth and up to the actual birth, and the cap used when calculating the sickness-benefit-qualifying income for the pregnancy benefit should be raised.

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: rejecting the motions (keeping things as they are).

No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 20 by S.

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
V	–	Abstain 0/0/19/3
Sown reservation	–	No 0/92/0/14
MP	–	Abstain 0/0/15/3
C	–	Yes 17/0/0/7
L	–	Yes 14/0/0/2
KD	–	Yes 17/0/0/2
M	–	Yes 59/0/0/9
SD	–	Yes 57/0/0/13

Committee proposal

The Riksdag rejects the motions 2025/26:718 by Anna-Belle Strömberg et al. (S), 2025/26:2781 by Isabell Mixter et al. (V) claim 9, 2025/26:3502 by Malte Tängmark Roos et al. (MP) claim 14, 2025/26:3588 by Ida Karkiainen et al. (S) claim 11 and 2025/26:3771 by Malte Tängmark Roos et al. (MP) claim 9.

Original (Swedish)

Riksdagen avslår motionerna 2025/26:718 av Anna-Belle Strömberg m.fl. (S), 2025/26:2781 av Isabell Mixter m.fl. (V) yrkande 9, 2025/26:3502 av Malte Tängmark Roos m.fl. (MP) yrkande 14, 2025/26:3588 av Ida Karkiainen m.fl. (S) yrkande 11 och 2025/26:3771 av Malte Tängmark Roos m.fl. (MP) yrkande 9.

Riksdag decision: The Riksdag said no to 104 proposals in motions from the general motion session 2025. The motions concern, among other things, the direction of family policy, parental insurance, child allowance and housing benefit. The Riksdag refers primarily to ongoing work on the matters raised by the motions.

Counter-proposals

The counter-proposal wants to strengthen economic family policy to support families in economic hardship. (S) — Reservation 20

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Sources and documents

The committee report on riksdagen.se (2025/26:SfU17)
Committee report full text (HD01SfU17)
Per-MP voting data (API)
Case status (API)

Documents under consideration

Motion 2025/26:1029 — Höjning av barnbidraget av Jamal El-Haj (-)
Motion 2025/26:1079 — Indexering av barnbidrag och studiebidrag av Sofia Skönnbrink m.fl. (S)
Motion 2025/26:1106 — Behovsprövning av barnbidraget av Malin Björk (C)
Motion 2025/26:111 — Rätt till föräldradagar vid vårdnadstvister av Angelica Lundberg (SD)
Motion 2025/26:121 — Möjligheten att avskaffa flerbarnstillägget av Angelica Lundberg och Markus Wiechel (båda SD)
Motion 2025/26:1322 — Nolltolerans mot barnfattigdom av Sanna Backeskog m.fl. (S)
Motion 2025/26:138 — Avskaffande av kvotering i föräldraförsäkringen av Josef Fransson (SD)
Motion 2025/26:1476 — Ett rättvist barnbidrag av Kadir Kasirga m.fl. (S)
Motion 2025/26:1552 — Inverterat flerbarnstillägg av Ann-Sofie Lifvenhage (M)
Motion 2025/26:1582 — Reform av bostadsbidraget för ökad träffsäkerhet och långsiktig hållbarhet av Cecilia Rönn och Patrik Karlson (båda L)
Motion 2025/26:1590 — Utökad sorgepeng för bättre stöd i sorg av Lina Nordquist och Mauricio Rojas (båda L)
Motion 2025/26:1638 — Avkvotering av föräldraförsäkringen av Alexander Christiansson (SD)
Motion 2025/26:1912 — Individualiserad föräldraförsäkring av Annika Strandhäll (S)
Motion 2025/26:203 — Incitament för tidigare familjebildning och ett högre barnafödande av Josef Fransson (SD)
Motion 2025/26:2267 — Behovsprövat barnbidrag av Ann-Sofie Lifvenhage (M)
Motion 2025/26:2537 — Förlängt barnbidrag när ett barn avlider av Mattias Eriksson Falk m.fl. (SD)
Motion 2025/26:2600 — Ytterligare dagar med sorgepeng av Mattias Eriksson Falk och Roger Hedlund (båda SD)
Motion 2025/26:2779 — En tryggare sjukförsäkring av Isabell Mixter m.fl. (V)
Motion 2025/26:2781 — En starkare ekonomisk familjepolitik av Isabell Mixter m.fl. (V)
Motion 2025/26:2834 — Ett jämställt samhälle av Helena Vilhelmsson m.fl. (C)

Source: The Swedish Parliament