The Social Insurance Commission considers that the sunset clause in health insurance in the long term should be removed and that more should get more out of their previous income into consideration when they are sick or unemployed.
LO requires concrete proposals quickly from the government.
The Minister for Social Annika Strandhäll (S) has now received social inquiry report on 1200 pages. They contain a series of proposals dealing with sickness and unemployment insurance.
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A wide majority of party members believe that 80 percent should get 80 percent of their allowable income in sickness benefit and that benefit ceiling indexed. Another suggestion is that the qualifying period is replaced by a qualifying deduction.
Future Vision
The report also considers that the controversial sunset clause should be deleted on sight. But first, however, the efforts to help sick back to work improving. This includes about past actions and that services take greater responsibility.
According to the Center member of the investigation, Solveig Zander, it is inconceivable that the bourgeois parties agree to remove the sunset clause as early as next year.
– It is a vision of the future, she says.
When it comes to unemployment insurance will take the investigation did not consider the ceiling for compensation, but considers that the ceiling will be indexed, that is, say it should be raised in line with others in everyday life becomes more expensive.
Reduced requirements
One of the biggest problems in today’s insurance fund is to many can not qualify for reimbursement. The Inquiry believes that reduced the qualification requirements should be considered, but only for certain groups.
– Made insurance is too generous, many will live on such insurance, made it too hard, it will not be good enough, says Ingmar Eriksson .
The Inquiry concrete proposals estimated total cost two billion. The cost depends primarily on proposals that alter how to calculate payments. But the price tag does not include any estimates of what it would cost to raise unemployment insurance, for example.
LO requires
LO’s Vice Chairman Tobias Baudin think it is good that there is a consensus that the sunset clause in health insurance should be removed.
– Now the question over to the government and we assume it as quickly as possible to abolish the gallows, says Baudin .
He thinks that the commission’s proposal is very toothless when it comes to how the rehabilitation of the sick will be improved.
Baudin rejoices at the same time that there is a consensus that more should get a larger percentage of their previous income when they are sick or unemployed. LO expects that the Government, in its spring budget proposes that the unemployment insurance ceiling is raised to 910 per day and that the roof indexed.
V critically
The Left disagree with several of the report’s conclusions and hold, for example, that there is no financial scope for improving health, occupational injury or unemployment insurance for the foreseeable future.
Social Security Minister Annika Strandhäll (S) is very scarce in comments about what can happen quickly.
– There is a lot of this is important and which we will now start with, she says.
Strandhäll out, however, that the investigation first to be sent out for consultation.
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Facts: Perform Secured
- In July 2008 imposed a limit on how many days a person can get sick pay.
- Perform Secured usually called reaching the final date after 914 days of sick leave (two and a half years) and is not considered to be entitled to continued payment.
- Most goes into labor induction at the Employment Service, and then get activity support as compensation.
- After three months, one can again apply for sickness benefit.
- A total of tens of thousands of people performing secured since the reform. It was, in a survey about a year ago, about two percent of all started sickness.
- A majority returning to the agency.
- 2013 returned 65 percent to the Social Insurance Agency, against 58 percent in 2012
Source: Social Insurance
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