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conditions of need for help with specific, basic needs must be met in

order to be eligible for Assistance Benefit. Examples of these needs

include help with eating, dressing and undressing, personal hygiene,

communicating with others and a range of other activities potentially

requiring detailed knowledge of the person’s specific functional

impairment.

If a person is entitled to more than, on average, 20 hours

per week of assistance to meet these fundamental needs, the person is

also entitled to, by the Social Insurance Code, other forms of personal

support in their daily life.

Objectives

The Government has commissioned the ISF to provide a basis for,

and assess the causes for, the outcomes of decisions on Assistance

Benefit for the period from 2002 up to and including 2013. This

applies both to new applications for Assistance Benefit and to the

entitlement review of already granted Assistance Benefit every

second year. The commission includes to examine whether there

have been any changes over time and identify the potential causes of

such changes. Finally, the commission is also requested to provide a

follow-up concerning any other municipal support that is offered to

persons who are not eligible for Assistance Benefit, but who have an

extensive need for support in their daily life. The report addresses all

the objectives mentioned above.

Methods

This report is based on an analysis of register data on Assistance

Benefit from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency

(Försäkringskassan) and register data on Services and Support to

Functionally Impaired Persons from the National Board of Health and

Welfare (Socialstyrelsen). In order to analyse areas not included in

the register data, 1 053 case files from the Swedish Social Insurance

Agency have been examined.