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full screen A judgment in the highest instance states that municipalities can offer elderly housing in another municipality – if they receive a reasonable standard of living. Archive image. Photo: Pontus Lundahl/TT
Ystad has been forced to pay 1.5 million in fines since 2021 because the elderly were not offered special accommodation in their own municipality. But now a judgment in the highest instance states that it is fine to offer accommodation in another municipality – as long as the standard of living is reasonable, reports Ystads Allehanda.
– This is an important judgment for us and also for other municipalities, says Erika Hult, acting head of social affairs to the newspaper.
The Inspectorate for Care and Care (Ivo) has in several cases demanded a special fee because Ystad did not follow the law. Ivo does not consider it reasonable that the elderly should have to move to another municipality.
Both the administrative court and the court of appeal found Ivo right, but the Supreme Administrative Court makes a different assessment: a municipality can certainly fulfill its obligation by offering special accommodation in another municipality.
“The decisive thing is that the individual is ensured a reasonable standard of living through the aid,” writes the Supreme Administrative Court.