Am I eligible for housing supplement?

You can receive housing supplement if you live in Sweden, have activity compensation or sickness compensation and pay enough for your accommodation in relation to your income. You can also receive housing supplement if you live in Sweden and are receiving some form of disability benefit from another EEA country or Switzerland.

If you are 65 years or older and are receiving a full old-age pension, you apply for housing supplement from the Swedish Pensions Agency.

To find out whether you are eligible for housing supplement, you can call us at 0771-524 524. Before calling, please prepare information about your housing costs, your income and your savings. If you are married or have a live-in partner, we need this information for both of you.

How do I apply?

1. Prepare digital documents about your housing

You need to attach copies of documents about your housing when you apply for housing supplement.

2. Apply

You can always apply for housing supplement up to three months back in time. If you want to apply for housing supplement for more than three months back in time, it is important that you send in the application no later than the month after Försäkringskassan made its decision on your activity compensation or sickness compensation. Then you can apply from the same month that you were granted activity compensation or sickness compensation.

3. Decision

If your application is complete, it will normally take 2 months before you receive a decision on the housing supplement.
In order for us to be able to make decisions on housing supplement, you must have received a decision on activity compensation or sickness compensation. However, even before you have received a decision we can start processing your application for housing supplement.

Usually you can receive housing supplement for as long as you receive activity compensation or sickness compensation. However, you will not receive an automatic extended housing supplement when you receive a new decision on sickness compensation or activity compensation. Therefore, submit a new housing supplement application if you want to continue to receive it.

4. Disbursement

If you are already receiving activity compensation or sickness compensation, you will receive a decision on housing supplement within no more than 30 days. If we need more information from you or need to further investigate your case, we will contact you.

The money will be paid on the 18th of each month if you are born day 1–15 or the 19th of each month if you are born day 16–31. If the disbursement date is a Saturday, your money will be paid out on Friday. If the disbursement date is a Sunday, your money will be paid out on Monday.

Special disbursement dates

Special disbursement dates and processing times

When will the disbursement appear on My pages (Mina sidor)?

On My pages (Mina sidor), you can see the disbursement under Disbursements (Utbetalningar) 1 bank day before the money arrives.

Notify us if anything changes

It is important that you inform us if your income or living situation changes. Notify us as soon as possible, but within no more than 14 days. We can then make sure you receive the right amount of benefit. If you receive too much money, you may be obligated to pay money back later.