Rehabilitation chain

The rehabilitation chain is used to assess your capacity for work and your entitlement to sickness benefit. Assessments can vary depending on how long you have been sick.

Since the time for occupational rehabilitation is planned out, it is important that supervisor and employee keep in close contact with each other for the entire period of sick leave.

Days 1-19

For the first 90 days, you are entitled to sickness benefit if you are unable to perform your regular duties or other temporary work assignments for your employer.

Days 91-180

After 90 days, you are only entitled to sickness benefit if you are unable to perform any work at all for your employer.

Days 181-365

After 180 days, you are entitled to sickness benefit if you are unable to perform any work on the regular job market. This is true even if you will most likely be able to return to work for your employer before day 366. Your fitness for work will be assessed in relation to an assignment with your employer even after day 180. This also applies if it could be considered unreasonable to assess your capacity for work in relation to work on the regular job market.

From day 366

From day 366 and onwards, the employee's fitness for work is always assessed in relation to all work on the regular job market. Thus, if the analysis shows that the employee is able to cope with another job, the individual's entitlement to sickness benefit ends after 365 days. Försäkringskassan can make exceptions if it could be considered unreasonable to assess an employee's fitness for work in relation to work on the regular job market, such as in cases where the employee is severely ill.

Financial compensation when sick

Days 1-14: Sick pay from the employer (a lump sum is deducted for the qualifying period, based on the average working week).
Days 15-364: sickness benefit, as decided by Försäkringskassan. Sickness benefit supplement, in accordance with the collective agreement.
Days 365-915: Extended sickness benefit after application approved by Försäkringskassan.

Sick pay period and pay deduction

The sick pay period consists of 14 calendar days. If you become sick again within five days of the previous period of sickness, it is counted as a continuation of the previous period instead of a new one. This is true regardless of whether the employee suffers from the same sickness or a different one.