# Five Reasons Why Your Auth0 Permissions Are Not in your Access Token

DevFeed: [Five Reasons Why Your Auth0 Permissions Are Not in your Access Token](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/five-reasons-why-your-auth0-permissions-are-not-in-your-access-token-15644.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://auth0.com/blog/five-reasons-permissions-not-in-access-token/>)

Author: Carla Urrea Stabile

Published: 2026-09-03T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Auth0 Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/auth0-blog.md>)

Topics: [Auth0](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/auth0.md>), [Authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authorization.md>), [JSON Web Tokens](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jwt.md>), [AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws-identity-and-access-management-iam.md>)

Tags: [auth0](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/auth0.md>), [authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authorization.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [jwt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jwt.md>), [tokens](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tokens.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial explaining five common reasons Auth0 RBAC permissions may be missing from an access token, including an omitted audience parameter, disabled permission settings, and incomplete role assignments.

## Source excerpt

Decoding your Auth0 JWT and seeing an empty permissions array? Here are 5 common reasons your Auth0 RBAC permissions are missing and how to fix them fast.