New description of work capacity in disability pension cases

The municipality's assessment of your work capacity must now be based on a description of your prerequisites for work.

The papers in the case must be prepared under the same rules. The municipality makes a decision based on the description and the health-related advice. It also relies on a professional explanation. The explanation must show why work capacity is considered permanently reduced, or which work tasks the person is considered able to perform.

The municipality can still make a decision without receiving health-related advice, cf. section 18(2), 2nd sentence, of the Act on Social Pension. Only the wording has changed: previously the municipality could make a decision without submitting the case to the rehabilitation team. The rule that the case had to be submitted to the team before it could be treated as a disability pension case has been removed from the executive order.

Previously the municipality made a decision based on the rehabilitation team's recommendation. If the municipality did not follow the recommendation, the case had to be submitted to the team again. That rule has been removed.

If you live abroad and apply for disability pension, Udbetaling Danmark prepares a description of your prerequisites for work. It forms part of the assessment of whether you are entitled to disability pension. Previously Udbetaling Danmark made a plan under the rules on rehabilitation plans.