When submitting documents about your illness or disability

The Public Employment Service (Arbetsförmedlingen) may sometimes require documents that show that you have an illness or disability. This helps us understand your situation and what affects you while working or while looking for work. It also improves our ability to give you the right support.

Why we need your documents

In order to provide you with the right support, we need an overall understanding of your situation. In discussion with you, we will determine what you are good at and what may be difficult for you at work or while looking for work. Your documents are an important part of the overall assessment that we carry out together. They also help us make decisions about what support you need and can receive from us.

Available support if you have a disability or illness

Examples of documents

You can submit, for example:

  • a medical certificate or doctor’s note
  • record copies
  • neuropsychiatric assessments
  • parts of your patient record
  • decision from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan) for compensation related to disability
  • certificate from a special needs school.

The documents must describe how your illness or disability affects you. That might mean pain or difficulty with memory or concentration, for example.

They must also contain:

  • your name and personal identity number
  • the name and title of the person who created the document. If the document is from a government agency, then it is enough to include the name of the government agency and
  • the date the document was written.

You can request the documents from the care provider that has been helping you. Many digital medical certificates are also available at 1177.se. Decisions from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency can be found by logging in to their website. If you attended a special needs school, you can contact the school for a certificate.

Submit your documents

Only submit documents if you and your administrator at the Public Employment Service have agreed that you should. You may send them in by post or drop them off at a National Government Service Centre (Statens servicecenter).

Find a service office (statenssc.se)

Once we have received your documents, we will scan them and save them in our systems. Only the administrator for your case can access them. They are never shared with employers.