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Försäkringskassan

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Agency to cancer victim: 'go to social services'

Science & Technology: 6 Feb 12
A young Swedish mother, recently diagnosed and treated for breast cancer, was told by the National Social Insurance Agency that she was not eligible for sickness benefits. READ »

Prison for dad who made girl fake mental illness

National: 15 Dec 11
A 46-year-old Swedish father who forced his young daughter to pretend she had a mental illness so he could cash in on assistance benefits was sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday. READ »

'Wheelchair man' jailed for four years for fraud

National: 10 Dec 11
A man in southern Sweden who scammed the Swedish social insurance agency for almost 14 million kronor ($2 million) has been sentenced to four years in prison. READ »

Man on sick pay ran ‘rolling’ alcohol shop

Business & Money: 18 Nov 11
Sweden's social insurance agency is demanding that a man, convicted of selling alcohol from the back of his van, pay back the full sickness benefits he received during the time he was running his bootleg operation. READ »

One in five fathers rejects parental leave: study

Society: 5 Oct 11
Almost 20 percent of Swedish fathers don't take one single day of parental leave during the first four years of their children's life, according to fresh figures from Sweden's social insurance agency Försäkringskassan. READ »

Authorities look to stem false benefit payments

Politics: 7 Aug 11
The state-run agency set up to stem the flow of money to support organised crime via state handouts claims that it has already recouped nearly 8 million kronor ($1.3 million) from just a dozen people in Stockholm alone. READ »

Government loses sick pay vote by slim margin

Politics: 1 Jul 11
The Swedish government suffered another setback in the Riksdag on Friday, when the Sweden Democrats voted with the centre-left opposition parties to force through its proposal by a single vote. READ »

Disabled 'trafficked' to Sweden in benefits fraud

National: 10 Jun 11
Disabled people are being lured to Sweden by false promises of generous benefits in a sophisticated fraud scheme that officials liken to human trafficking, according to Swedish media reports. READ »

Parents fail to cash in on gender equity bonus

Business & Money: 3 Jun 11
Swedish parents missed out on over 60 million kronor last year after almost half of couples entitled to the government's gender-equity bonus (Jämställdhetsbonus) neglected to apply. READ »

Government in new bid to fix health insurance

Politics: 11 Apr 11
The Swedish government has proposed a number of changes to its reforms of the country's health insurance system, admitting its current efforts have left some people in a jam. READ »

Swedish lesbians allege parental leave bonus discrimination

Society: 2 Apr 11
A lesbian couple has accused Sweden's social insurance agency of discrimination after being denied the right to the government's gender equity bonus for parents who share parental leave equally. READ »

More Swedes appeal sickness benefits denials

Society: 7 Mar 11
An increasing number of Swedes are appealing benefits claims that have been denied by the country's social insurance agency. READ »

Foreign-born denied benefits more frequently

Society: 23 Feb 11
Foreign-born applicants are denied sick benefits by Sweden's social insurance agency more often than applicants born in Sweden, statistics from the agency reveal. READ »

Number of young Swedes in 'early retirement' soars

Business & Money: 26 Jan 11
Since the centre-right Alliance coalition first took power in Sweden, the number of young people receiving disability pension payments has increased by nearly 50 percent, which the social security minister called a "political catastrophe." READ »

'Chlamydia blog' mum regains sick benefits

National: 29 Nov 10
Annica Holmquist, whose daughter highlighted her plight battling the Swedish Social Insurance Agency on her blog ahead of the Swedish general election in September, has regained her right to receive sickness benefits. READ »

Bodström chooses family over Riksdag

Politics: 15 Oct 10
Former Social Democratic justice minister Thomas Bodström is leaving politics and giving up his seat in the Riksdag to remain with his family in the United States. READ »

Social insurance agency blamed for man's suicide

Society: 7 Oct 10
A man who had been suffering from depression took his own life just two weeks after being told by the Social Insurance Agency that he should seek full-time work, the man's relatives have told a welfare board inquiry. READ »

Court affirms pregnancy can be an 'illness'

Science & Technology: 30 Sep 10
A landmark court ruling in which four women showed that Sweden’s National Social Insurance Agency discriminated against them by denying them sick benefits during their pregnancies has been upheld on appeal. READ »

Sick pay claimants reapply for handouts

National: 24 Sep 10
Every third person who was forced out of the sickness benefit system during the first three months of 2010 has reapplied for benefits, according to a new report. READ »

'Chlamydia blog' mum deprived of benefits

National: 21 Sep 10
Annica Holmquist, the 55-year-old whose battle with the Swedish Social Insurance Agency caused an election campaign stir after her plight was described on her daughter's blog, will lose her benefits, despite assurances of a "solution". READ »

Reinfeldt rocked by 'chlamydia letter'

National: 19 Sep 10
Sweden's government came under fire this week for its sick leave reforms after the Chlamydia Letter blogger (pictured) told the story of her 55-year-old mother who had her benefits withdrawn despite suffering from a rare disfigurement syndrome. READ »

Faked illnesses netted fraudsters 75 million

Society: 4 Aug 10
A social insurance fraud ring in southern Sweden involving dozens of families defrauded the state of 75 million kronor by claiming for fabricated illnesses. READ »

Sick benefit claims plateau after falls

Business & Money: 3 Aug 10
The number of Swedes on long-term sick benefits has stabilized after seven years of successive falls, according to official figures released on Tuesday. READ »

Cerebral palsy fraudster gets 3 years in jail

Society: 19 Jul 10
A 32-year-old man who was caught playing ping-pong while claiming to be disabled by cerebral palsy has been jailed for three years by a Swedish court. READ »

Women's injuries 'not taken seriously'

National: 17 Jul 10
Women are much less likely than men to receive compensation from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency for work-related injuries, new figures show. READ »

Swede on trial for human smuggling in Ethiopia

National: 9 Jul 10
The trial of a Swede indicted for human smuggling and fraud has begun in Ethiopia. The woman is also wanted in Sweden for social insurance fraud. READ »

Wounded Swedish soldiers in benefits battle

National: 22 May 10
Four Swedish soldiers seriously injured in Afghanistan are facing a new battle at home: the Social Insurance Agency is refusing to pay them benefits for their first two weeks back in Sweden since they neglected to register as unemployed. READ »

More Swedes denied sick benefits

National: 14 May 10
The number of Swedes who have been denied sick benefits has risen sharply. Over 8,200 people this year have either been refused sick benefits or seen their compensation reduced. READ »

Faked cerebral palsy netted millions in benefit

Society: 14 Apr 10
A 32-year-old man from Halmstad is suspected of having cheated his way to benefits of almost five million kronor ($700,000) from the Social Insurance Agency by pretending to be mentally disabled. READ »

'Parental equality bonus has no effect': report

Society: 23 Mar 10
The introduction of a parental leave gender-equity bonus on July 1st 2008 has had no effect on how parents elect to divide up time spent caring for their children, a new report from the Social Insurance Agency shows. READ »

Billions in benefits paid out in error

National: 8 Mar 10
The Swedish Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan) estimates that it paid out 16.4 billion kronor ($2.3 billion) too much in various benefits in 2009, according to a new report. READ »

Grieving mother denied sickness benefit

Society: 2 Mar 10
A Swedish court has ruled that 24-year-old Sofie Karlsson lost her right to sickness benefit by failing to register as unemployed the day after the cancer death of her infant son. READ »

Parental 'child sick leave' peaks in February

National: 9 Feb 10
Each February, Swedish parents take an estimated 600,000 paid leave days to take care of sick children, according to new Social Insurance Agency statistics. READ »

Social Insurance Agency 'too slow': report

Business & Money: 29 Jan 10
Sweden's justice ombudsman (JO) has levelled heavy criticism at the Social Insurance Agency for a string of perceived shortcomings. READ »

Holocaust survivor can keep pension: court

National: 21 Jan 10
A Holocaust survivor living in Gothenburg will not have her Swedish pension cut because of compensation payments she receives from the German state, a Swedish court has decided, overturning a previous ruling against the woman. READ »

Swedish dads spending more time at home: study

Society: 21 Jan 10
Dads in Sweden are taking greater advantage of the country’s generous parental leave, a new report shows. READ »

Social Insurance Agency 'too generous': report

National: 16 Jan 10
Sweden's Social Insurance Agency has labelled itself too generous in handing out early retirement pensions on grounds of sickness since tougher rules were introduced in 2008. READ »

Bunny dance fraudster gets three years in jail

Society: 15 Jan 10
A man claiming to be wheelchair bound has been jailed for three years after he was caught on camera dancing with a rabbit mascot at an amusement park in western Sweden. READ »

Riksdag sets tougher limits for sick benefits

Business & Money: 10 Dec 09
The Swedish parliament on Wednesday passed controversial new limits on sickness benefits designed to get more people back into the workforce. READ »

Five percent of Swedes on sickness benefits

Business & Money: 18 Nov 09
Nearly one in ten Swedes in their forties is currently receiving some type of benefit due to illness or disability, according to a new report. In all, some 530,000 people are receiving sickness benefits. READ »

Benefits agency guilty of gender discrimination

Business & Money: 3 Nov 09
Four women who were denied sick benefits during their pregnancies have won a landmark discrimination case against Sweden’s National Social Insurance agency (Försäkringskassan). READ »

Woman refuses 'Sweden's smallest benefit payment'

Society: 1 Oct 09
A pensioner from western Sweden may have received the smallest benefit payment ever paid out by the country’s social insurance agency. And all she wants to do is give it back. READ »

'Schizophrenic' woman guilty of benefits fraud

Society: 15 Sep 09
A Swedish woman who managed to convince her doctor she suffered from schizophrenia has been exposed as a benefits cheat after the same doctor ran into her years later at a department store. READ »

Criminals caught up in benefits cheat probe

Society: 5 Sep 09
A campaign by Sweden’s social insurance agency to root out benefits cheats has found that about 100 seasoned criminals have received millions in unwarranted payments. READ »

Child benefits must be raised: Sahlin

Politics: 16 Aug 09
Mona Sahlin, leader of the Swedish Social Democrats, has said child maintenance support benefit levels will be raised if there is a change of government next year. READ »

Bunny pic unmasks Swedish benefits cheat

National: 23 Jul 09
A Swedish man who claimed to be wheelchair bound has been asked to repay millions of kronor in social insurance benefits after authorities obtained a picture of a him dancing with a life-sized rabbit. READ »

Renters in Sweden struggle to make ends meet

Society: 8 Jul 09
Sweden’s renters are having a tougher time meeting their monthly obligations, resulting in increased evictions as well as applications for housing assistance payments. READ »

Checks prompt decline in child sickness benefit cheats: report

Society: 5 Jul 09
Cases of suspected fraud by parents claiming benefits for the care of sick children have declined dramatically following the introduction of an absence certificate requirement, a new report shows. READ »

Insurance agency staff facing more threats

National: 16 May 09
The number of threats against employees of the Swedish Social Insurance Office is growing, according to the authority's head of security. READ »

Fetishism goes pop culture: Sweden’s latest social trend

Dating: 27 Apr 09
Even in Sweden, a country with traditionally liberal views about sexuality, fetishism has long been considered a taboo subject. But as The Local’s Rami Abdelrahman discovered recently, it appears that fetishism is finding a mainstream foothold in Swedish society. READ »

Sweden reins in sick leave payouts

National: 20 Apr 09
Fewer Swedes are claiming sick leave benefits than at any point since 1982, according to new figures from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency. READ »

Nurse gets injury payout after 36 years

Science & Technology: 18 Mar 09
A Swedish nurse who contracted Hepatitis C after coming into contact with an infected needle has had the cause of her sickness recognized by the authorities as a workplace injury after a 36 year wait. READ »

Holocaust survivor denied Swedish pension

National: 10 Mar 09
Sweden's Supreme Administrative Court is to consider whether damages paid to a Holocaust survivor by the German state should be deducted from her Swedish pension. READ »

Swedish woman receives own death certificate in the post

Society: 17 Feb 09
A woman suffering from cancer has received some shocking news from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency - a letter informing her that she had been declared dead. READ »

Is Sweden a good place to bring up kids?

Analysis & Opinion: 4 Feb 09
Every week we ask a panel of readers to discuss an aspect of life in Sweden. This week: raising children. READ »

New lift for Sweden's minority languages

Politics: 29 Jan 09
The Swedish government has promised to do more to preserve and promote the country’s official minority languages. READ »

Greens demand interest on late social security payments

Politics: 27 Jan 09
The Green Party has demanded that the Swedish Social Insurance Agency pay interest on late payments as parliament prepares to debate the agency's performance on Tuesday. READ »

New police taskforces to tackle organized crime

National: 15 Jan 09
In an effort to combat the spread of organized crime in Sweden, police plan to create nine nationally-led taskforces to fight criminal gangs, drug smugglers, and other gang-related criminals. READ »

Restructuring problems cause late social insurance payments

Politics: 7 Jan 09
Strained finances at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency may result in prolonged processing times and delayed payments, according to a new report. READ »

Auditors lash out at student loans body

Business & Money: 30 Dec 08
State auditors have launched a stinging critique of student loans body CSN and the Swedish Social Insurance Agency for their failure to chase up debts owed by people living abroad. READ »

Swedes: hard workers or hardly working?

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Dec 08
Doug Lansky takes a look at how Swedish tradition, technology, sick leave, vacations, public holidays and a new management style mean many 'full-time' Swedish workers get 130 days off per year. READ »

Teen blogger tops Swedish celebrity search list

Society: 10 Dec 08
Blogging teenager Isabella 'Blondinbella' Löwengrip was Sweden's most sought after celebrity in 2008, according to a new list released by Google. READ »

Widespread benefit fraud among career criminals

National: 6 Dec 08
Thirteen career criminals have been reported to the police for serious benefit fraud as the social insurance agency targets widespread abuse of the system among criminal gangs. READ »

Woman's benefits withdrawn due to large breasts

Society: 3 Dec 08
A Swedish woman injured in a car accident has had her disability benefits withdrawn after the country’s social insurance agency determined her large bust was to blame for the pain. READ »

How does Swedish parental leave work?

Analysis & Opinion: 29 Aug 08
Ask The Local: Sweden's parental leave rules are famously generous, but can also be a bit bureaucratic. We try and guide you through the maze. READ »

Pensioners in long wait for benefits

Society: 10 Aug 08
Staff shortages and a reorganisation of the social insurance office (Försäkringskassan) has led to long delays. 30,000 pensioners have this year had to wait over a month for their housing benefit. READ »

Wrong turn costs woman right to income replacement

National: 9 Apr 08
Making a wrong turn on the way home from work cost a Swedish woman her right to social insurance annuity payments for injuries sustained in a car accident. READ »

Parental benefit cheats fewer than expected

National: 9 Mar 08
Parents cheat less on sick pay benefits for their children than first thought. A new report indicates that only 1.6 percent of payments are erroneous. READ »

Greens call for state-run unemployment insurance

Politics: 25 Feb 08
The Green Party wants to transform Sweden’s unemployment and social insurance into a single, state-run programme. READ »

Government backs off on sick benefits

Politics: 11 Feb 08
Reacting to strong criticism, the government is now stepping back from plans to limit sick benefits. READ »

Agency head resigns

National: 12 Dec 07
Inger Efraimsson, chairwoman of the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan), has resigned. READ »

Public think police 'doing a poor job'

National: 22 Nov 07
Police are doing a poor job at investigating crimes - particularly violence and burglary, according to a major public survey. READ »

Government tightens checks on parents with sick children

Politics: 18 Sep 07
In a bid to clamp down on social insurance fraud, the government has vowed to tighten checks on parents staying at home with their sick children. READ »

Swedes go abroad for medical care

Society: 31 Aug 07
Swedes are increasingly looking abroad for medical treatment, according to new statistics. The number of Swedish patients treated in other EU countries at the expense of the Swedish state doubled between 2005 and 2006. READ »

Clampdown on sick leave for 'burn out'

Society: 10 Aug 07
Being granted sick leave for symptoms of 'burn out' could soon become much harder in Sweden due to new national guidelines to come into effect in October. READ »

Man gets 4 years for insurance swindle

National: 3 Aug 07
A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to four years in prison after he was found guilty of embezzling 36 million kronor from Swedish Social Insurance Agency in Gothenburg. READ »

Swedes turn on benefit cheats

Society: 13 Jul 07
Benefit cheats can no longer trust acquaintances to keep their secret safe: the number of tip-offs to Stockholm's Social Insurance Agency is surging compared to the same period last year. READ »

Major social insurance fraud leads to arrests

National: 26 May 07
Several people have been arrested in connection with a major fraud operation directed at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency. READ »

'Blind' motorist caught driving three times

National: 11 May 07
Swedish authorities have called for a person claiming disability benefits for blindness to pay back over quarter of a million kronor after being caught driving on three separate occasions. READ »

Dads still not taking 'fair share' of parental leave

Society: 11 Apr 07
Sweden lead the world in giving fathers time off with their kids, but many dads are still failing to take the opportunity, say social insurance bosses. They are sending out letters to fathers to push them to take longer paternity leave. READ »

Benefit cheats threatened with jail

Politics: 26 Mar 07
People who are granted benefits on false pretences could face prison under new proposals put forward by Social Insurance Minister Cristina Husmark Pehrsson. READ »

Swedish sick leave falling

Society: 19 Jan 07
The average Swede took 40 days off sick from work last year, down from 41.3 days last year. Good news, says the man in charge of sick payments. READ »

Benefits office sheds 1,400 jobs

Business & Money: 16 Jan 07
Försäkringskassan, the Swedish Social Insurance Administration, plans to make around 700 people redundant this year, with a further 700 jobs going through retirements and voluntary redundancy. READ »

Government cracks down on sick leave

Business & Money: 21 Dec 06
Sweden's high rate of sick leave has to fall, the government has said. Parliament has passed plans to cut sick benefits, and has received proposals to further tighten the system. READ »

Benefits agency closes 309 offices

Society: 17 Nov 06
Försäkringskassan, the organization that handles Sweden's sick benefits and pensions, is to close 309 of its 330 offices. Bosses say the move is designed to improve service. READ »

Benefit seekers offered Internet porn shows

National: 23 Oct 06
People looking for the website of the organization that deals out benefits to Sweden's sick and retired might have got a shock on Monday, after it was hijacked by a site offering hard-core porn. READ »

Cheats claim 20 percent of child sickness benefit

Society: 26 Sep 06
Fraudulent claims of financial support for the care of sick children are more widescale than previously thought, according to a report released on Tuesday. READ »

Parents of 'sick kids' in massive fraud

Society: 14 Sep 06
Many Swedish parents are claiming benefits, claiming they are at home with sick children when in fact they are working or on holiday. That's according to new information from the social insurance office. READ »

Swedish parliament rejects childcare split

Society: 8 Mar 06
A controversial government proposal to split the childcare allowance equally between parents who are separated, whether or not both agree to it, has been rejected by parliament. READ »

'Depressed' Hell's Angels face probe

National: 22 Feb 06
Seven out of ten Hell's Angels in Stockholm are claiming sick benefits for depression, an inquiry has shown. Now the doctor who wrote their sick notes could be struck off. READ »

Mass resignations hit government relocations

Politics: 29 Jul 05
It may have seemed like a good idea at the time: plug the economic hole left by regional defence cuts by moving government agencies from Stockholm to the areas worst-affected. Unfortunately, many of the 3,000 staff due to be relocated would rather stay in the capital. READ »

"Extraordinary measures" to get long term sick into work

National: 30 Jun 05
As Sweden's social insurance offices get tough with long term sick claimants, the organisation's director general Curt Malmborg says the government might have to create a whole new type of market to get them back into work. READ »

Swedes face benefits clampdown

Society: 2 Feb 05
Sweden - one of the world’s healthiest countries, yet with one of the highest rates of sick leave. Now there’s a new broom at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency – and he’s promising to sweep away the cobwebs in Sweden’s benefit system. READ »

Sick leave payouts to rise in 2005

Society: 21 Jan 05
With sick leave costing Sweden 36 billion crowns last year, the Social Insurance Office got tough to put people off claiming benefit. It hasn't worked, and now they're expecting an increase in payouts in 2005. READ »

Child benefit "discriminates against fathers"

Society: 20 Jan 05
In another step towards Sweden becoming the superpower of gender equality, the Minister for Social Affairs says fathers who hold the baby should hold the child benefit book too. READ »

Swedish MPs "forgot to report sick days"

Politics: 2 Dec 04
Sweden's legislators have been found not to be practising what they legislate. Despite tighter rules on sick leave, it turns out that many MPs have been forgetting to report their days off in bed. READ »

Government's shock claim: Only the sick can claim sick pay

Society: 21 Sep 04
Stand by your TV sets for a barrage of public information films explaining how sick you have to be to stay home from work, following a survey which found that a spot of tiredness is reasonable grounds for calling in sick for a large chunk of the population. READ »


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