The social letterbox: Can I be forced to continue in arbejdsprøvning?

I have been in the system as sick leave in many years – in fact since I broke the back on my work over ten years ago.

the Municipality has said all the time that I should be tested in relation to get back in the labour market.

But I have many medical certificates, which says that I can no longer work in my profession as a craftsman, but it is as if my case starts all over again, every time the municipality puts something in time.

I came in a ressourceforløb, where one would try to develop my ability to work, but there is nothing new happened in the time. I have had a mentor, and I have gone to the usual treatment with my back, to maintain it, as best I can.

Here just before my ressourceforløb expired, I got a new caseworker.

She said that I was going through yet another internship before my case can be settled. I chose to collaborate and have therefore been participating in an internship, where my ability to work would be developed and tested.

for over three months, and my caseworker promised me that it would not last longer, but now she says that the internship shall be extended until such time that my case should be up in the board, which will decide what should happen.

I do not understand It – our agreement was indeed a second.

to continue in the internship/arbejdsprøvning to my ressourceforløb expire? And what happens if I do not continue, even if the case worker says I should?

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I hear, unfortunately, all too often on the sick, which is not being resolved – and therefore end up with to be thrown around in the system, where they never get assigned to a flex job or early retirement pension.

If your working capacity has been assessed in a documented internship/arbejdsprøvning, and you have a speciallægeerklæring that your back injury is so severe that you either now or in the future may work in your former profession, so should the municipality had been clarified by you and tried either to rehabilitate you, make you eligible for a flex job or – as a last option – assign you a disability pension.

you've been through a three-year ressourceforløb, without your capacity for work has been developed, and that your condition is the same, so everything points that you must proceed to either a flex job or early retirement. the
social Worker Puk Sabber manager the social letterbox. Photo: Jakob Boserup
If you have medical certificates , who says that your condition is permanent and without development, and there have several internships behind you, so you don't need another internship.

But you have cooperated and contributed to the fact that your case has been further elucidated, so you have done your duty.

There is no technical evidence that your internship must be extended until your case needs for a rehabiliteringsteam.

And if the original agreement was the 13 week internship, and you have completed it, then there is no reason to participate in any further – unless your case officer can justify that the extension has importance that your case is properly illuminated.

as if your case is brightly lit and simply pulled out.

You need not be afraid that you can't get your case for a rehabiliteringsteam.

, to be involved in it, called ’my plan’, and you should be happy with what the plan is, in relation to your case again to rehabiliteringsmødet.

There must be a sense of an extension, and you require to get in writing.

good Luck and best of luck with it all.

Notes

to available can try out a new area of work or gain new skills. In a work place is it possible to sniff a new field of study.

be the beginning of a job with wage subsidies or ordinary employment, where the jobseeker and the employer will have the opportunity to see each other a little. There is, however, raised criticism of the scheme, as it rarely leads to either wage subsidies or hiring, but in reality they are being abused to gain free labour.

often, when assessing fitness for work from sick on incapacity benefit. In the past it was called the arbejdsprøvning. Today the internship is often to uncover and demonstrate the ability to work either in an internal internship at a sheltered workshop or in an external internship in a company.