An application for assistance benefit shall be made in writing to
the Social Insurance Agency.
If anyone has applied to a municipality for help by a personal assistant or
financial support for such assistance pursuant to the Act (1993:387) concerning
Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments,
the municipality, if the private individual concerned can be presumed
to be entitled to assistance benefit, shall notify this to the Social Insurance
Agency. In such a case, the Social Insurance Agency shall consider the issue
of assistance benefit even without an application.
Assistance benefit may not be provided for a longer period back than one
month before the month when the application or notification was made. Act