Economic abuse in intimate relationships and the law
What's at stake: Economic abuse — where one partner controls the other's money, runs up debt in their name, or blocks financial independence — makes it harder to leave a violent relationship. The question is whether rules on matters such as division of property, maintenance, credit and e-identification should be reviewed quickly, or wait for a broader, comprehensive strategy.
Case texts and AI reasoning are AI-translated from the Swedish originals; the Swedish text is authoritative.
What the vote decides
The reserving party (SD) wanted the government immediately tasked with a comprehensive legal review of how economic abuse is handled in legislation and with introducing an economic contact ban, while the committee held that the issue is best addressed through the government's forthcoming national strategy against men's violence against women.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The committee welcomes the Riksrevisionen (Swedish National Audit Office) review and regards economic abuse as a serious form of violence and oppression, but trusts that the government will address the issue appropriately within the comprehensive national strategy against men's violence against women announced for 2026, and therefore rejects the motions.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 4 (SD)
The reserving party (SD) agrees with the National Audit Office's findings of shortcomings in the legislation, including around division of property, maintenance, credit and e-identification, and wants the government to carry out a comprehensive legal review within twelve months of how economic abuse is handled, and to introduce an economic contact ban preventing perpetrators from incurring debt or taking other financial actions against the victim.
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 4 by SD.
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
V
–
Yes 17/0/0/5
S
–
Yes 91/0/0/15
MP
–
Yes 16/0/0/2
C
–
Abstain 0/0/20/4
L
–
Yes 12/0/0/4
KD
–
Yes 17/0/0/2
M
–
Yes 59/0/0/9
SDown reservation
–
No 0/61/0/10
Committee proposal
The Riksdag rejects the motions
2025/26:3830 by Sara Gille et al. (SD) proposals 2 and 3 and
2025/26:3836 by Helena Vilhelmsson et al. (C) proposal 3.
Original (Swedish)
Riksdagen avslår motionerna
2025/26:3830 av Sara Gille m.fl. (SD) yrkandena 2 och 3 samt
2025/26:3836 av Helena Vilhelmsson m.fl. (C) yrkande 3.
Riksdag decision: The Riksdag has considered a statement from the government based on the National Audit Office's report on the state's efforts against economic abuse in close relationships. Economic abuse means, for example, taking control over and controlling another person's finances.
The Riksdag welcomes the National Audit Office's examination and believes that it shows that the work against economic abuse must continue and be intensified and that economic abuse must be made more visible.
The report contains four recommendations to the government and two to relevant agencies. The Riksdag notes that the government has implemented some measures based on the recommendations. Among other things, the government has initiated a review of the rules on property division and consideration time in the Marriage Code. The Riksdag also notes that the government is working on developing a new long-term strategy on, among other things, men's violence against women and that the government, as part of that work, will continue the work to prevent and combat economic abuse.
The Riksdag filed the statement, that is, closed the matter. At the same time, the Riksdag said no to a number of motions on the subject, two of which were submitted during the general motion period in 2025.
Counter-proposals
The counter-proposal wants to establish a national definition of economic abuse and assign authorities to develop indicators and statistics for systematic monitoring. (SD) — Reservation 4
Motion 2025/26:1826 — Åtgärder mot ekonomiskt våld i nära relationer av Aylin Nouri (S)
Motion 2025/26:2834 — Ett jämställt samhälle av Helena Vilhelmsson m.fl. (C)
Motion 2025/26:3827 — med anledning av skr. 2025/26:23 Riksrevisionens rapport om statens insatser mot ekonomiskt våld i nära relationer av Ardalan Shekarabi m.fl. (S)
Motion 2025/26:3828 — med anledning av skr. 2025/26:23 Riksrevisionens rapport om statens insatser mot ekonomiskt våld i nära relationer av Maj Karlsson m.fl. (V)
Motion 2025/26:3830 — med anledning av skr. 2025/26:23 Riksrevisionens rapport om statens insatser mot ekonomiskt våld i nära relationer av Sara Gille m.fl. (SD)
Motion 2025/26:3833 — med anledning av skr. 2025/26:23 Riksrevisionens rapport om statens insatser mot ekonomiskt våld i nära relationer av Janine Alm Ericson m.fl. (MP)
Motion 2025/26:3836 — med anledning av skr. 2025/26:23 Riksrevisionens rapport om statens insatser mot ekonomiskt våld i nära relationer av Helena Vilhelmsson m.fl. (C)