Försäkringskassan amends maintenance payment amounts for the 2027 calendar year

Försäkringskassan has issued new regulations amending certain maintenance payment amounts for the year 2027. The instrument, titled “Försäkringskassans föreskrifter om ändring av vissa underhållsbidrag år 2027”, was published in Svensk författningssamling (SFS) on 12 November 2026 as SFS 2026:1864. The amendment concerns the maintenance amounts that apply in the state maintenance-support scheme, which the agency administers.

The regulation is issued by Försäkringskassan, the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, which is responsible for deciding and paying maintenance support (underhållsstöd) to children whose parents do not live together. The instrument is an amendment regulation: it revises amounts already laid down in the agency’s own regulatory framework rather than creating a new scheme, and it is published in the official statute book that Regeringskansliet produces.

The publication follows the agency’s established practice of revising the maintenance figures on an annual basis, so that the amounts used in decisions correspond to the year for which support is granted. The title refers expressly to 2027, and the amended amounts set out in SFS 2026:1864 are the ones that will be applied for that calendar year.

What the regulation does

SFS 2026:1864 amends certain maintenance payment amounts for 2027. In the Swedish maintenance-support model, the agency pays a fixed amount to the resident parent and then determines how much of that money the other parent must reimburse; those maintenance figures are the ones fixed in the agency’s own regulations.

Because the instrument is drafted as an amendment to existing provisions, it does not replace the base regulation. It updates specific amounts, which is why the official title refers to “vissa underhållsbidrag” — certain maintenance payments — rather than to the scheme as a whole.

Who is affected

The revised figures feed directly into a scheme that touches two groups at once:

• Separated parents who receive maintenance support from Försäkringskassan on behalf of a child.
• Parents who are liable to reimburse the agency for support that has been paid out.
• Children entitled to maintenance support, whose payment level is calculated from the amounts in the regulation.
• Family-law practitioners and municipal social services who calculate or explain maintenance obligations using the agency’s figures.

For these groups the regulation matters less for its legal formality than for its arithmetic: every change in the applicable amount moves the monthly sums that households either receive or owe.

Timing and legal status

The regulation was published in Svensk författningssamling on 12 November 2026 and is directed at the 2027 calendar year. As a föreskrift issued by a central government agency, it belongs to the subordinate tier of the Swedish regulatory hierarchy: it is binding in application, but it rests on the agency’s authority under the statutory framework for maintenance support rather than on a new act of the Riksdag.

The publication date — in the middle of the autumn, two months before the turn of the year — leaves authorities, employers of legal advisers and the agency’s own case officers time to apply the revised figures from the start of 2027 rather than partway through the year.

Why it matters

Maintenance support is a recurring cost or income for hundreds of thousands of households with children living in two homes, and the amounts are set centrally rather than negotiated case by case. A regulation that changes those amounts for 2027 therefore has immediate consequences for household budgets: higher figures raise what a paying parent owes and what a receiving parent is paid, without any individual decision being needed. Because the change is published in SFS, it is also publicly checkable, which matters for parents who want to verify the basis on which Försäkringskassan has calculated their case.

Source: Svensk författningssamling (SFS), 12 November 2026, SFS 2026:1864.