She has a brain tumor, but she’s partially employed. The “disability trap” means that the election can punish her financially.

People who cannot work risk losing financially by being in a 60% position instead of receiving 100% disability benefits right away.

Despite having Parkinson’s disease for 13 years, Vidar Smalås is still hard at work with a position of 60%.

The 62-year-old from Mo i Rana has fallen into the so-called ‘disability trap’: if you are granted disability benefits in the pension fund with a degree of less than 50 percent, and then become more than 50 percent disabled, you can be hit financially .

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