National Audit Office report on the Public Employment Service's support for persons with disabilities, etc.
Employment agency support for people with disabilities – processing times and individualized support
What's at stake: Unemployment among people whose disability affects their capacity to work is significantly higher than among other jobseekers, and long processing times can lead employers who want to hire with a wage subsidy to move on to other candidates before support is in place.
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 the government should take action to sharply cut processing times and ensure fast, individualized support for people with disabilities, and give the public sector a special responsibility as employer and purchaser, or whether the government's work already under way is sufficient without such an instruction.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The committee welcomes the audit office's review and shares the motion authors' view that society needs to make it easier for people with disabilities to participate in working life, but reaches a different assessment than the motion authors on the immediate need for action. The committee stresses that the employment agency should identify people with reduced work capacity early so that support can be put in place quickly, and recommends rejecting the motions on shorter processing times, individualized support, and a special responsibility for the public sector.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 1 (S)
The reservation (S) wants stronger, more individualized support, with the employment agency retaining a coordinating role and better cooperation with municipalities, education coordinators, social services and healthcare. The reservation points out that long processing times - partly due to slow coding in the employment agency's systems - lead employers wanting to hire with a wage subsidy to move on to other candidates, and wants processing times halved and the public sector given a special responsibility as an employer and purchaser of services from Samhall and similar providers.
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: closing the file on the government's report (no further action) and rejecting the motions (keeping things as they are).
No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 1 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
Confidence
Evidence
V
–
Abstain 0/0/17/5
Sown reservation
–
No 0/92/1/13
MP
–
Abstain 0/0/13/5
C
–
Yes 21/0/0/3
L
–
Yes 12/0/0/4
KD
–
Yes 14/0/0/5
M
–
Yes 60/0/0/8
SD
–
Abstain 0/0/61/10
Broke with the party line
SJoakim Sandell(S, Malmö kommun)
Abstain — party line: No
MPs whose vote differs from their party's majority position in this division. Marked with a dark ring in the chamber view.
Committee proposal
The Riksdag rejects the motions
2025/26:949 by Daniel Persson (SD),
2025/26:1951 by Mattias Vepsä and Alexandra Völker (both S) motion 2,
2025/26:3543 by Nils Seye Larsen et al. (MP) motion 14,
2025/26:3590 by Ardalan Shekarabi et al. (S) motion 12,
2025/26:3877 by Magnus Persson et al. (SD) motion 1,
2025/26:3878 by Ciczie Weidby et al. (V) motion 1 and
2025/26:3887 by Leila Ali Elmi et al. (MP) motions 1 and 3-5 as well as
files government communication 2025/26:72.
Original (Swedish)
Riksdagen avslår motionerna
2025/26:949 av Daniel Persson (SD),
2025/26:1951 av Mattias Vepsä och Alexandra Völker (båda S) yrkande 2,
2025/26:3543 av Nils Seye Larsen m.fl. (MP) yrkande 14,
2025/26:3590 av Ardalan Shekarabi m.fl. (S) yrkande 12,
2025/26:3877 av Magnus Persson m.fl. (SD) yrkande 1,
2025/26:3878 av Ciczie Weidby m.fl. (V) yrkande 1 och
2025/26:3887 av Leila Ali Elmi m.fl. (MP) yrkandena 1 och 3-5 samt
lägger skrivelse 2025/26:72 till handlingarna.
Riksdag decision: The Riksdag directs a formal statement (tillkännagivande) to the government to review the regulation on special measures for persons with disabilities resulting in reduced work capacity. Examples of special measures are wage subsidies, subsidies for workplace aids and interpreters for persons with visual or hearing impairments. The reason for the review is to ensure that the conditions for the measures contribute to achieving the purpose of the labor market policy program.
The formal statement is based on proposals in motions in response to the government's communication regarding the National Audit Office's audit report Employment Service Support for Persons with Disabilities. In the report, the National Audit Office concludes that there are shortcomings in how effectively the Employment Service works with the target group. Furthermore, the National Audit Office assesses that the government's steering has not been sufficiently effective.
The Labor Market Committee believes that the National Audit Office's audit is an important contribution to the work of providing appropriate measures to persons with disabilities affecting work capacity. The Committee also notes that the government has already taken several measures to improve the support and that further measures may be needed.
The Riksdag rejected the other proposals in the motions and filed the government communication.
Counter-proposals
The counter-proposal wants people with disabilities to receive faster, more individualized support from the Employment Agency and for processing times to be significantly reduced. (S) — Reservation 1
Motion 2025/26:1951 — Starkare tillsammans - för en rättvis funktionshinderspolitik som håller ihop Sverige av Mattias Vepsä och Alexandra Völker (båda S)
Motion 2025/26:3543 — Ett samhälle för alla - stärkt funktionsrätt, trygg personlig assistans och rätt till ledsagning av Nils Seye Larsen m.fl. (MP)
Motion 2025/26:3590 — Utgiftsområde 14 Arbetsmarknad och arbetsliv av Ardalan Shekarabi m.fl. (S)
Motion 2025/26:3872 — med anledning av skr. 2025/26:72 Riksrevisionens rapport om Arbetsförmedlingens stöd till personer med funktionsnedsättning av Ardalan Shekarabi m.fl. (S)
Motion 2025/26:3877 — med anledning av skr. 2025/26:72 Riksrevisionens rapport om Arbetsförmedlingens stöd till personer med funktionsnedsättning av Magnus Persson m.fl. (SD)
Motion 2025/26:3878 — med anledning av skr. 2025/26:72 Riksrevisionens rapport om Arbetsförmedlingens stöd till personer med funktionsnedsättning av Ciczie Weidby m.fl. (V)
Motion 2025/26:3887 — med anledning av skr. 2025/26:72 Riksrevisionens rapport om Arbetsförmedlingens stöd till personer med funktionsnedsättning av Leila Ali Elmi m.fl. (MP)
Motion 2025/26:949 — Fler personer med en funktionsnedsättning i arbete av Daniel Persson (SD)