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If you live in one Nordic country and work in another, you are covered by the social insurance legislation of the country where you work. This means that you may be entitled to compensation from that country if, for example, you become ill.

If you work in Sweden and live in another Nordic country, you are covered by Swedish legislation and can receive compensation from Försäkringskassan. If you apply for a compensation related to your child, your child must have a Swedish coordination number from the Swedish Tax Agency. If you are in need of care, you must present your “Certificate on the right to healthcare benefits in Sweden”. You apply for the certificate on My pages (Mina sidor).

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If you live in one country but work in another within the EU/EEA or Switzerland, you are covered by the social insurance legislation of the country where you work. This means that you may be entitled to compensation from that country if, for example, you become ill.

If you work in Sweden and live in another country within the EU/EEA or Switzerland, you are covered by Swedish legislation and can receive compensation from Försäkringskassan. You may also be entitled to a Swedish EU card and certificate E106 (S1) which entitles you to healthcare benefits in your country of residence.

To receive healthcare in Sweden, you need a certificate on the right to healthcare in Sweden. You apply for the EU card and the two certificates in the same service on My Pages.

Longer processing times

At the moment we have longer processing times than usual. We apologise for this and are doing our utmost to shorten them.

When you are posted to Sweden and work here for an employer from another country, you are usually covered by the social insurance legislation of the other country, but the rules differ depending on which country you are posted from.

If you are posted from an EU/EEA country or Switzerland

You or your employer must apply for certificate A1. Contact the equivalent of Försäkringskassan in the country where you are employed to obtain the certificate.

What is certificate A1?

You need to have certificate A1 when you work as an employee or self-employed person in more than one country within the EU/EEA or Switzerland. The certificate shows which country's social insurance legislation you are to be covered by. It is that country that you can receive compensation from and to that country that social security contributions are paid for you. You will receive the certificate from the social insurance office in the country whose legislation you are covered by. In Sweden it is Försäkringskassan. The certificate is valid until the date on the certificate or until the authority withdraws it.

You or your employer may present the certificate to the relevant institutions of the countries in which you work to demonstrate that social security contributions are not to be paid for you there.

If you are posted from a country outside the EU/EEA or Switzerland

Sweden has social security agreements with a number of countries. The rules laid out in the agreement differ from country to country. The agreements may cover different things, like pension benefits, child allowance, parental benefit or sickness benefit. If an agreement applies to your situation, it may affect your right to the benefits included in the contract.

The rules for posting differ between the agreements. You apply for a certificate on which country's social insurance legislation you are to be covered at the equivalent of the Social Insurance Agency in the country that you are posted from. This applies to the following countries with which Försäkringskassan has an agreement:

• Bosnia Herzegovina
• Chile
• Republic of the Philippines
  
• India
• Israel
  
• Canada
  
• Cape Verde
  
• Morocco
  
• Quebec
  
• Serbia
  
• South Korea
  
• Turkey
  
• USA

If you are posted from a country that is not listed above, you do not need to present a certificate from the other country.

If you will be working in Sweden and other countries within the EU/EEA or in Switzerland, you must report this to the equivalent of Försäkringskassan in your country of residence. That authority will then investigate which country's social insurance legislation you are to be covered by. This needs to be done in order for you to receive healthcare benefits and compensation from the right country and for you or your employer to know which country social security contributions should be paid to.

Work in several countries within the EU/EEA or Switzerland