Extra Magazine Special is a quality stamp. It is a new brand for our very best and most thorough journalism. I think you should read. In this Special we focus Mette Frederiksen sparekniv to the thousands of sick danes who ended up in this economic chaos. The coming week we present every day a new victim.
Raskmeldinger despite medical certificates, major economic problems, useless practices and documentation requirements, that makes you sweat. These are just some of the dilemmas, as the danes are experiencing, when they become affected by the disease and coming into sygedagpengesysemet.
– The ordinary wage earner, who goes to work everyday, is totally confused, when he or she encounters the system for the first time, tells Marianne Stein, which is a private social worker.
– It is a well-trained and ordinary danes, who will be affected by it here. Journalists, architects, accountants, nurses and so videre.De have 22 weeks, and then smoking the just out of the sickness benefit and transferred to a kontanthjælpsydelse.
– You can very easily and quickly hit the bottom, when you drop down in performance on the way, says Marianne Stein.
Every day she is helping the danes, who are fighting with the job center at the same time that they are affected by cancer, mental illness, arthritis, work-related injury or other illness.
– It is incredible that we are out there, where you must have private means to get the help of the public, says Marianne Stein.
– I is a result of failed policy.
It is often experienced that municipalities are seated and find out, ‘what can we do to help this citizen and as soon as possible to end the case’ rather than ‘how can we help the citizen’, says Marianne Stein. PHOTO: René Schütze
Marianne is working across municipalities, and she believes that the sick danes draw lots in the pool depending on where they live, as well as the caseworker and the job centre staff, you end up with.
– It is very different from municipality to municipality, how they use the legislation. Even in the same job centre, there may be discrimination of the citizens.
– I can sit with two citizens, that are attached to each of their team in a job centre, and although their sequences are similar, they are treated differently.
Marianne Stein sits today on the Extra Leaf and the live-chatting with people who have questions about benefits.
the Chat starts at. 12.30.
LIVE: Chat with the expert on sickness benefits
