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Case No. 13/00835
People with severe mobility problems may
be granted individual disability transportation pursuant to section 11 of the Public
Transport Act. An interest group informed the
Ombudsman that a municipality had deprived
citizens of the right to individual disability
transportation because they possessed a car
for disabled drivers.
The Ministry of Transport had previously
issued a guiding statement listing the cate
gories of disabled people included in the
scheme, and the Ombudsman therefore asked
the Ministry to look into the matter. The Min
istry issued a new guiding statement, which
said that municipalities are not allowed to take
a citizen’s possession of a car for the disabled
into account when they assess whether or not
to grant individual disability transportation.
The Ministry referred to the fact that the le
gislative proposal for the Public Transport Act
was significantly changed on this point during
Parliament’s reading of the bill.
In 2013, the Ombudsman received 4,769 complaints from citizens, enterprises, organisations, etc. about what they perceived to be
errors made by public authorities.
Case No. 13/01215
A newspaper article about a citizen’s tax case
caused one of the newspaper’s readers to react. He wrote an e-mail to the journalist behind
the article and sent it cc to a number of Members of Parliament and to the Ombudsman.
The Ombudsman replied that he understood
the e-mail to have been sent to him for his
information and that he would consequently
take no further action in the matter. The Ombudsman also asked the newspaper reader to
state his postal address or to send a so-called
secure e-mail, for instance via the digital post
box on www.borger.dk (official online selfservice portal), if he wrote to the Ombudsman
in future.
The Ombudsman’s replies to complainants are
usually confidential and are therefore sent
through the post or as secure, encrypted emails.
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