Rights and obligations Instruments for monitoring

Jobseekers forfeit their right to benefits if they 

Have given up their employment relationship without good reason Have lost their employment owing to their own misconduct. 

The daily allowance can be reduced by 25% for 40 days if jobseekers rejected a reasonable job offer without acceptable justification, or if their behaviour obviously prevented their engagement for the position offered. If such misconduct re-occurs for a second time during the benefit period, the daily allowance can be curtailed by 50% for another 40 days. 

27 In the election campaign 2006, the centre-right Alliance for Sweden said that all household should have an extra SEK 1000 left each month if they were to win the election. 

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