Response to interpellations 2024/25:419 and 430 on the future of Finsam
Translated from Swedish by AI; the translation may contain errors. The Swedish text is the original.
Summary AI, written in advance
The debate concerns the future of Finsam and the role of the coordination associations in supporting people's work capacity and self-sufficiency. M considers that the coordination associations are significant 1 and that the government is working on routines so that target groups receive support through social fund projects 1. M argues that long benefit periods increase the risk of ill health 2 and that the focus should be on the core activities 3. M emphasizes that Försäkringskassan now functions as a guarantor for project coordinators 2 3. S considers that Finsam is an effective tool 4 and that the state should increase the co-financing 5. S argues that the government is narrowing the legislation 6 and misinterpreting the law 7.
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Speakers (14)
Statsrådet Anna Tenje (M)
Mr. Speaker! Åsa Eriksson has asked me what I intend to do so that Finsamverksamheter in the future can be able to provide support to more people with complex issues.
Sanne Lennström has asked me how I and the government intend to ensure that Finsam receives a system that is fit for purpose to be able to measure goal fulfillment.
Taking people's work capacity into account to the greatest extent possible is important from both a human and a societal perspective. The coordination associations are significant for supporting people to achieve work capacity and self-sufficiency through coordinated rehabilitation efforts.
The Swedish Social Insurance Agency, ISF, has, on behalf of the government, evaluated the effects of coordination association-funded interventions on individuals' livelihood situations. According to ISF's evaluation, those who participate in coordination association-funded interventions in the form of team activities receive better opportunities to support themselves.
At the same time, ISF notes that the number of people who are able to participate in coordinated rehabilitation efforts through the coordination unions has decreased in recent years. I want to emphasize that it is important that the cooperating parties in the coordination unions work so that more people are able to access coordinated rehabilitation efforts.
It has been assessed for some time that it is not compatible with the Social Services Act for coordination associations to apply for funds from the European Social Fund Plus. Therefore, the government has tasked Försäkringskassan with developing routines for how the target groups of the coordination associations can be provided continued support through social fund projects in order to approach the labor market.
The routines shall be guiding for how the cooperating parties – through the coordination associations' preparation structures – identify and carry out coordinated rehabilitation interventions with project funds from the European Social Fund plus. Försäkringskassan shall also develop routines to be the project organizer in cases where none of the other involved parties decide to be it.
Through this assignment, we will quickly establish a model that enables the target groups of the coordination associations to receive social fund resources during the current program period.
The proposals for amendments to the Social Insurance Act that Försäkringskassan presented in December 2024 are now being processed within the Government Offices. The same applies to Försäkringskassan's submission regarding the processing of personal data concerning the follow-up of social insurance benefits. I can assure the members that very active work is ongoing at the Government Offices on exactly these issues.
Åsa Eriksson (S)
Mr. Speaker! I have forgotten which time in the order we are debating Finsam. Number six, the Minister shows here – thank you for that! It is because it is such an incredibly important issue, at least for us Social Democrats.
Mr. Speaker! Sweden has, as is known, Europe's second highest unemployment right now. We have just passed Greece. It pains me to say it.
Between the years 2023 and 2024, the number of people on sick leave with a psychiatric diagnosis increased by 5,096 people.
Social services and data from Kolada testify to a changed target group who need social assistance in the municipalities. It is more and more people who suffer from ill health.
Mr. Speaker! The coordination associations know the target groups. They know from experience what type of support people with complex problems who are far from the labor market need in order to increase their health and their work capacity and be able to support themselves. The coordination associations have methods and ways of working that yield results, and evaluation after evaluation shows that coordinated support is effective and long-term sustainable.
Mr. Speaker! Minister Tenje is not responsible for the agency Arbetsförmedlingen, but she is responsible for governing the agency Försäkringskassan – and the Finsamverksamheten.
For us Social Democrats, Finsam is an effective and good tool that should be used so that more people can achieve better health, increased work capacity, and self-sufficiency. We do not understand why the government is not acting when the development is clearly going in the opposite direction.
I have in several debates with the Minister pointed out that Försäkringskassan's increasingly restrictive interpretation of the 20-year-old Finsam legislation – which, nota bene, has not been changed; yet now completely different interpretations are being made – has contributed to major problems for effective and well-functioning Finsam operations. This leads, of course, to fewer people receiving the support and help they need.
Mr. Speaker! Last week, the National Network for Coordination Associations held its annual conference. All the associations I spoke with then, both civil servants and politicians of various party colors, testified that the cooperation climate is now so poor that the core mission – to help individuals increase their work capacity and support themselves – is being overshadowed and hindered because the participating parties place significantly more focus on organizational issues, exclusion criteria, and which funds one can apply for, cannot apply for, can mix, and so on, instead of doing what is known to be needed to help people into the labor market.
The legislation looks exactly the same today as it has for 20 years, as has been said. I have read the government's regulatory letter to Försäkringskassan thoroughly. The wording regarding Finsam is verbatim the same. Nevertheless, Försäkringskassan is making a completely different interpretation today.
We have been waiting for this debate since February 14, when I submitted the interpellation, so now I expect big news from Anna Tenje. All parties shall contribute to more people receiving help, says Tenje. In what way does Tenje mean that Försäkringskassan has contributed to more people receiving coordinated support?
Sanne Lennström (S)
Mr. Speaker! Follow-up, evaluation and analysis are important instruments to justify the existence of an activity and ensure good development. It is especially important to know what effect the money that we pay in taxes actually has. That an activity can prove to be effective is something that justifies the activity's existence and continuation.
That is not always the case, however. One example of that is the coordination agreements, which we are debating here today.
For those who do not know what a coordination agreement is, I will begin with a brief account.
The activity is based on the Act on Financial Coordination of Rehabilitation Interventions and makes it possible for Arbetsförmedlingen, Försäkringskassan, the municipality and the region to work together in a coordination association. The primary task of the coordination associations is to finance interventions that provide support and rehabilitation to individuals who need joint authority support so that they are given the opportunity to improve their work capacity and, in the long run, support themselves.
A coordination association shall also support cooperation between the parties in the work performed within the framework of the Finsam legislation. The target group is individuals who are in need of coordinated rehabilitation interventions from several of the cooperating parties in order to achieve or improve their ability to perform gainful work. With a common budget and a common goal, financial coordination can be conducted here.
Individual-oriented interventions financed by coordination associations are aimed at individuals who have rehabilitation needs and simultaneously have a need for coordination from at least two of the aforementioned collaborating parties. That both these criteria are met is a prerequisite for the individual to be able to participate in an individual-oriented intervention financed by a coordination association according to the Finsamlagen.
Mr. Speaker! This debate is not primarily about the sky-high unemployment, as Åsa Eriksson mentioned earlier. But what we are debating here today, the future of the coordination associations, is a prerequisite for us to be able to improve the situation and help those who are far from the labor market through coordinated resources – to catch people. It could pull us a bit up out of the unemployment swamp that we are stuck in, where we are at the bottom of the rankings in Europe and the EU.
The coordination associations used a follow-up system called SUS until 1 January 2023. SUS was intended to follow up on participants within the operations. After the system was decommissioned, it was replaced with Försäkringskassan's system named Uppföljning Finsam.
The difference is that SUS was based on individual follow-up because the system could handle personal data. Finsam follow-up, on the other hand, only handles the number of new women and men in the association's various initiatives. This means that the new system cannot be used in the same way for the association's goal fulfillment.
Finsam is, as we have previously mentioned, invaluable for some people. We must be able to prove the effect of every tax krona so that we do not jeopardize this important activity. My question to Minister Anna Tenje is therefore: How does the Minister and the government intend to ensure that Finsam receives a system that is fit for purpose to be able to measure goal fulfillment?
Dzenan Cisija (S)
Mr. Speaker! I want to start by thanking Åsa Eriksson and Sanne Lennström for raising Finsam as an important issue.
I live alone in a politically neglected suburb of Gothenburg. It is a district where many people every day struggle to find their place in society, where young people lose their faith in the future, and where parents with mental health issues or language difficulties do not know where to turn. It is a district where people fall through the cracks – not because they do not want to work, but because the system does not cooperate.
That is where Finsam comes in. Finsam is not a bureaucratic experiment. It is a practical tool to help real people with real problems. By having Försäkringskassan, Arbetsförmedlingen, municipalities and regions collaborate, they can collectively meet the individual with integrated support.
Today, unfortunately, we see the opposite. State authorities are withdrawing. Funding is decreasing in real terms. EU funds that should be used are being stopped. The result has been that projects in places such as Gothenburg have been shut down. Staff have been laid off, and people are not getting help in time.
Mr. Speaker! If the state does not increase its co-financing to Finsam, it sets a ceiling on what municipalities and regions can contribute. Finsam is built on the principle of equal responsibility, but if the state does not increase its share, other parties cannot do this either. It is short-sighted, I think. It is unfair, and I would argue that it is socio-economically foolish. For every person who gets stuck in passivity, bounced between systems and does not receive rehabilitation, the costs for social assistance, care, and mental health increase.
A recent evaluation conducted by the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, ISF, simultaneously shows that Finsam is working. People are returning to work, achieving better health, and requiring less support. So why is the government so passive? Why are there no clear steering signals to Försäkringskassan? Why have the funds not been increased when the needs have increased?
Mr. Speaker! We know that there are tens of thousands – perhaps hundreds of thousands – of people in Sweden who would need the support that Finsam provides. But only a few percent are reached today. Shall we be satisfied with that? I mean that we must have higher ambitions. We shall not dismantle. We shall expand. Finsam should be the backbone of our active welfare policy.
I urge the government to take responsibility. Increase the state's co-financing of Finsam! Give clear directives to the authorities – in this case, Försäkringskassan! Ensure that EU funds reach the right target group! And above all, do not let more people fall through the cracks!
Caroline Högström (M)
Mr. Speaker! Let me begin by thanking both Minister Tenje and members Eriksson and Lennström for raising the question of the coordination associations in the chamber again – not least against the background of the discussion some of us had at NNS, the National Network for Coordination Associations.
There was a certain self-critical tone among the Social Democrats, which I welcomed at the time. But the target is missed again, because the reality is clear: When the Social Democrats held government power, not a finger was lifted to develop the coordination agreements. The Finsam legislation and its potential for better cooperation between the parties ended up in the drawer. There it stayed, dusty and forgotten.
It was only when Minister Anna Tenje and the Moderaterna entered the Government Offices that the work was actually taken seriously. We have not turned a blind eye to the problems. We have opened our eyes and rolled up our sleeves.
The coordination associations were placed in the center of the table. Försäkringskassan received a long-awaited assignment to evaluate the legislation. The Social Insurance Inspectorate was tasked with analyzing the effects. Following this, the government delivered a new assignment on how European Social Fund funds can be used to support the target group. These are not small steps. They are systematic and responsible reform steps.
Mr. Speaker! It is about a genuine effort to follow the coordination agreements into the future. For it is the state that has fallen behind – not the individual. We need to modernize our cooperation and not get stuck in old structures. For that reason, we must not lose sight of the target group along the way.
Even though the members suggest that it is going slowly, I still want to say that much has happened in a short time. More has happened than when the Social Democrats were in power. It is, however, important that we do it right and are not just fast. The target group is among the most vulnerable. These are people who often fall between the cracks but who need the collective strength of society.
We stand firm in our ambition: to create better cooperation, greater efficiency and stronger support for those who need it most. It is a responsibility that I hope more parties are prepared to step up to.
Statsrådet Anna Tenje (M)
Mr. Speaker! There is no doubt here in the chamber that we are quite in agreement regarding the view on the coordination associations. They fulfill a very important and valuable function through co-financing and coordinating rehabilitation efforts to support people in achieving employability and self-sufficiency. It concerns individuals who many times stand quite far from the labor market and who, for far too long, have felt a certain displacement effect.
We know that research shows that long benefit periods contribute to an increased risk of, among other things, ill health, poverty, and social exclusion. This further impairs people's opportunity to enter the labor market and become self-sufficient. I have therefore followed precisely these issues with great interest, and just as Member Högström said, we have placed them right on the table.
If one looks further at ISF's evaluation, it can be observed that it has yielded results for those individuals who have participated in the coordination agreements' co-financed interventions in the form of team activities. These individuals have received a greater and better opportunity to support themselves.
We have, as we have said, had quite a few debates about this in this chamber. For me, it has been very important throughout the process to be solution-oriented and agile. This applies in particular to the issue of the social fund resources. The question concerns how they can be distributed and, above all, that the target groups of the coordination associations should be able to receive these funds.
Mr. Speaker! It is important to emphasize that the intention has never been for the coordination associations specifically to replace the existing activities or to become a separate rehabilitation authority. The mandate that Försäkringskassan has now received means that the government ensures there is a foundation and a guarantee that there will always be a project coordinator. Försäkringskassan has received a mandate after a very good dialogue with the government regarding the importance of social funds – so-called ESF funds, which we are talking about here today – continuing to be available to the target groups of the coordination associations. No party should, on the grounds that they cannot manage to be a project coordinator, refrain from contributing so that ESF funds can finance important interventions.
All parties that can today – and who have also previously been able to – apply for ESF funds will also continue to be able to do so. We did, however, see that several parties testified to difficulties when it was no longer possible to apply through the coordination unions. Now we solve this by making Försäkringskassan the foundation and the guarantor.
The activities shall continue to take place also among the parties, and together, measures and projects can be identified, financed, and coordinated through the coordination associations where it is deemed appropriate. The four members of the coordination associations shall therefore continue to be involved for the benefit of the target group, and the principle of co-financing and active engagement shall remain.
Therefore, the assignment shall be carried out in cooperation with Arbetsförmedlingen, Socialstyrelsen, and SKR through the National Council for Financial Coordination. This creates the possibility for increased funding that will benefit the target group. The allocation funds that the association has previously used for co-financing of ESF funds can be used for other projects for the benefit of the target group. At the same time, additional funds from ESF can be made available.
I hope for a lot of workshop with the funds that now remain during ESF's programming period until 2027.
Åsa Eriksson (S)
Mr. Speaker! There is quite a lot I want to comment on in the Minister's response and in Member Högströms earlier contribution to the debate.
Member of Parliament Högström says that a lot has happened in a short time since Anna Tenje became responsible minister. That is true. Unfortunately, it has gone in completely the wrong direction, if you ask any coordination association at all. It is since this government took office that Försäkringskassan and now also Arbetsförmedlingen, point by point, have narrowed the interpretation of the legislation and are stopping projects that they previously had been positive towards. They are stopping applications for ESF funds with various strange justifications.
That things happen quickly is not always good, if it goes in the wrong direction. I would like to encourage both Member of Parliament Högström and Minister Anna Tenje to read the preparatory works for the Finsam legislation, including the Ds that was prepared and clarified the intentions of the legislation, namely to be the guttering that is missing in the welfare systems' downpipe systems. It is not reasonable to believe that people with complex problems should fit into one of the downpipes' toolboxes. Guttering was needed, that is, a coordination association with activities that can help with what the individual needs.
Madam Speaker! Minister Tenje just said that she has given a mandate to clarify how social fund resources can be used, precisely because Försäkringskassan has refused coordination associations to use social fund resources. Coordination associations are not even allowed to lend out staff who are involved in writing applications. One is not allowed to mix Finsamp funds and ESF funds, according to Försäkringskassan. This stops a lot of good activities for the vulnerable individuals.
When Tenje says that Finsam should not be a rehabilitation authority, I would very much like to know which authority should be that. I want to once again point out a person who has received support from a Finsam activity, whom I have told about previously. It concerns a man who was ill but had no SGI and therefore could not receive compensation from Försäkringskassan. Therefore, he had been on social assistance for many years. He was so far from the labor market that it was not relevant for him to seek support from Arbetsförmedlingen. Furthermore, he lived in his car because he did not have sufficient income to have an apartment.
Which authority is Anna Tenje supposed to take on this person? He needs work-oriented rehabilitation, healthcare, livelihood support, and help with education so that he can enter the labor market. He got that. Today he works, has his own livelihood, lives in an apartment, feels well, contributes, pays tax – exactly what we want all people to do.
If the coordination associations are not allowed to be the safety net in the welfare systems, who does Anna Tenje think should take responsibility for a person with complex problems who needs help from all four constituent parties? I would like to know that.
Will the government take the initiative for a different type of governance of Försäkringskassan? Or will they be allowed to continue to narrow the interpretation of the regulatory framework so that even fewer receive support?
Sanne Lennström (S)
Madam Speaker! I do not intend to dwell on Member Högström's historiography of the previous parliamentary term. The reason for that is that today's debate is actually not for us as members or for the Minister, but for Finsam and the people who work there or are affected by its activities. This debate is for them to get answers to the question of the important activity's future.
The National Network for Coordination Associations, also called NNS, and the coordination associations in the country view it seriously that there is currently a lack of a satisfactory system to follow up on the interventions that are financed and administered through the coordination associations. It is highly alarming that we cannot follow the results of the 670 million that the associations cover annually.
The work to ensure a well-functioning follow-up system needs to proceed quickly. The unions state that they have already waited a long time. A petition was submitted to the government during 2024, and now during the spring of 2025, the government has announced that the Ministry of Social Affairs shall resolve the issue. Many hope that this is true and that the minister can provide a somewhat clearer and more reassuring statement during today's debate.
NNS announced in 2023 that while waiting for a comprehensive follow-up system, the associations and their members should be given a clear mandate to manage the follow-up and enable the associations to receive aggregated data. This has not happened yet, but it is still a clear request.
The coordination associations should also be given stable conditions to simultaneously generate knowledge about the associations' work. In line with this, NNS wishes that the Swedish Social Insurance Agency and also other evaluation institutes, for example IFAU, be given more government assignments on impact assessments within the framework of Finsams work and results. There are various areas that could advantageously be measured and which could contribute valuable knowledge. Here we can, for example, mention the latest evaluation from ISF, but there are many examples of what else can be impact-assessed in a collaboration.
Cooperation with universities and educational institutions should be developed, as well as cooperation with Försäkringskassan, Arbetsförmedlingen's analysis units and other agencies with research expertise, for example ISF and IFAU. At present, cooperation is ongoing with MSI, Mötesplats Social Innovation, and Malmö universitet among others. The mandate comes from the EU Commission, which has set requirements for its member states to establish ecosystems for so-called competence centers for social innovation on the theme of an inclusive labor market.
I therefore still have the same questions: Can the Minister reassure the coordination bans and the persons who are dependent on these with a statement regarding a better follow-up system in the near future? What else on this theme can be evaluated in terms of effectiveness in cooperation?
Dzenan Cisija (S)
Madam Speaker! I want to remind what the discussion is actually about, namely people whom society fails. It is people who live with mental ill-health, people who have been on sick leave for several years and young people who have never been given a chance to enter the labor market. In the politically and economically neglected suburb where I live, this is everyday life.
Finsam has shown that it is possible to make a difference. When all social actors join forces, people can get back on their feet, find a job or start studying. It is a hope, and it is also called dignity.
Today, this hope is being dismantled bit by bit because the state is not taking its responsibility. The least one can demand, and I do now, is that the government increases its funding so that more people receive help. All research shows that it is an investment that pays off for both the individual and society.
My message is clear: Stop braking! Start building! Let Finsam reach more who need it!
Since I do not have any more speeches remaining, I would like to add that the last time the state funds were increased was in 2016, when we had a Social Democratic-led government.
Caroline Högström (M)
Madam Speaker! The representative for the Social Democrats stands here and paints a picture of that the coordination agreements are under threat, which is not true. It does a great disservice to both the public debate and the coordination agreements. It creates anxiety and is completely without any basis in reality. Furthermore, we are now not spending time on developing the coordination agreements or on creating the best opportunities for the coordination agreements to reach the target group, but instead on calming down and explaining that it is not true.
If we look at the results, we can see that this government, with consideration for the coordination associations and the target group, is making a difference. The follow-up system is being reviewed, because the system has been changed due to a remainder from earlier. Already in 2020, a petition came from Försäkringskassan regarding personal data that nothing has been done about. But when we actually have a government that delivers, the Social Democrats stand here in the chamber and describe a reality that does not exist, except perhaps in the Social Democrats' party group.
However, there are several of us who safeguard the target group and who know that the coordination associations make an important contribution for the individuals and for society. We must create better conditions for that. That is why, for example, the evaluation that Försäkringskassan was asked to conduct is important. Now, one needs to look at what can be done further with it. What we have done with the ESF funds is also important for the coordination associations.
This government delivers. Stop painting a picture that does not correspond with the truth and which completely unnecessarily creates concern for an important target group and for an important social effort! There should be some order.
I thank you for the debate and can reassure everyone at home: You do not need to be worried.
Statsrådet Anna Tenje (M)
Madam Speaker! My hope here today was that we all, regardless of geography or political color, could gather and unite around the important mission in Finsam: to help people toward work capacity and self-sufficiency. But I must admit that I was a bit let down.
It is exactly as Member Högström describes: A picture is being painted that actually does not match. An anxiety is being fueled, and a suspicion is being nurtured in the chamber for which there is really no basis. It makes me concerned.
The members of Parliament stand in the speaker's chair and talk about the bare minimum one can demand. Then I want to be clear, Madam Speaker, that the bare minimum one can demand from a member who directs criticism towards the government for us not increasing the funding is that their own party at least included it in its own budget proposal. But the Social Democrats did not. They say that Försäkringskassan should receive more money or that the appropriations for co-financing should be higher, but they did not even include that in their own budget. That makes the criticism fall quite flat.
Anxiety is being painted that the coordination unions will now not be able to continue their activities. That is completely incorrect. The intention has never been that the coordination unions should replace the existing activities or become a separate rehabilitation authority. The activities and projects shall be conducted by the parties. But given that the individual has a complex situation, help was needed from many different parties. It can also happen that one de facto encounters them under different circumstances. For that very reason, the coordination unions shall be there to pick up, coordinate, and ensure that one receives the activities being conducted.
The assignment that Försäkringskassan has now received, I hoped would make it so that we finally move away from the discussion of whether it is possible to apply for ESF funds or not. That is what it will do going forward, with the help of the coordination associations' preparation structure. And Försäkringskassan will become the guarantor when there is a need for project coordinators specifically, and when there has been an indication that one cannot manage to be the one who applies and to be the project coordinator. Now full focus, full power, and full energy can be placed on the target group, instead of having long discussions about who gets to do what. Försäkringskassan will therefore be that guarantor.
It would not help the target group as such to discuss who is allowed or not allowed to apply and why. Now we have solved that task, and now full focus can be on the core activity: helping those who today stand far from the labor market to obtain their own livelihood and to receive help and support.
Madam Speaker! All of this has been signaled together with the National Network for Coordination Associations, NNS, in an article together with the then chairman Fredrik Lundén to clearly mark that there is great consensus and great agreement between the government and NNS on the issue. But there is also a need for us to now move forward together, in order to assist and help as many as possible in the target group.
Madam Speaker! My wish is simply that more, even in this chamber, can join in and focus on those who truly need help and support instead of spreading anxiety and uncertainty.
Åsa Eriksson (S)
Madam Speaker! As I have said, I have been waiting for this debate since February 14, when I submitted the interpellation. I know that many who work at various coordination associations around Sweden are following this debate. But unfortunately, I do not believe that any of them have become any wiser. They have, in fact, just received notice that coordination associations are not allowed to mix their funds or services with ESF funds at all, but just now the Minister stood here and said that all question marks have been cleared up and that it should occur via Finsams preparation processes. I believe that the Minister will receive a number of questions from a number of coordination associations after this.
Regardless, it is exactly as Member Lennström says: Finsam exists for those individuals who do not receive support and help with what they need from the involved parties, because the involved parties – whatever the Minister says – do not have the right tools in their toolboxes.
This government may not care that this is a unique and long-awaited law, which according to all evaluations is unbeatable in terms of providing those who are furthest from the labor market the help they truly need to increase their ability. But now it is being misinterpreted so that functioning operations and effective interventions are being destroyed. Or one lacks the ability or competence to steer the state authorities where one wants. I do not know which is worse. But I know that it affects the inhabitants of Sweden and all those who need these interventions.
I think Member Dzenan Cisija said it well: Finsam should be the backbone of our active welfare policy. That was damn well the most beautiful thing I have heard in a long time. Imagine if the Minister could write that in his next regulatory letter to Försäkringskassan! Then many more people could get help improving their health and their work capacity and supporting themselves, because the negotiating parties cannot manage it themselves.
Sanne Lennström (S)
Madam Speaker! I believe I can speak for both myself and my colleagues here in the chamber when I say that we are not here to stir up unrest, even though we have had to take part in a great deal of unrest. The reason I requested this debate was quite simply that I wanted to receive an update on the follow-up.
I might have wished for a slightly clearer answer as to when and how this follow-up will take place. But I realize that we have to return to that question when this has progressed a bit further in the preparation. We want to know more about the active work that is ongoing within the Government Offices. To be continued – there will have to be an eighth debate on Finsam in the future.
But I thank you very much for the answer and for today's debate.
Statsrådet Anna Tenje (M)
Madam Speaker! Let me be clear! In an article that obviously did not reach everyone, we went out and issued a statement regarding the ESF funds together with the National Network for Coordination Associations. To mark our consensus and our agreement, we also issue a statement regarding the review of the Finsamlagen. It is based on the evaluation that ISF presented on 2 December 2024 and the analysis of the Finsamlagen that Försäkringskassan recently conducted. In that part, we will also return, in exactly the same way as we will return regarding the follow-up of the operations. I fully share Member Lennströms position that it is important to get clear information on what works and what does not work, precisely so that the coordination associations can take part in each other's projects and be able to spread them, so that they reach those who really need them and thereby get more in the target group to approach the labor market and become self-sufficient.
With this, Madam Speaker, I thank you for the debate. But I also look forward to more debates, which I assume there will be, given that we do not quite seem to be on the same page regarding what has been said and done and what is most important to do next.
In this speech, Mats Sander (M) agreed.
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