Abstract
The social-assistance systems in the various Scandinavian countries are non-categorical. Traditionally, much of the literature on the income safety net in Sweden has been produced on behalf of parliamentary or governmental investigations. Income information is obtained from tax returns and registers; background information is acquired through a mail survey. The survey of household income can be used to shed light on the dynamics of getting social assistance. The close to average income of recipients can be used as a basis for a positive evaluation of the public-sector transfer system. Fundamental to plans for a negative income tax is the presumption that recipients of income-tested transfers have incomes quite different from others’. Persons with a low income and fulfilling one of the suggested new criteria based on sickness or unemployment would have been eligible. In the 1980s the welfare debate focused on reasons for the increase in the number of those falling into the income safety net.
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