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The following articles have been tagged with "Svensk_kassaservice":

US immigrant sent on Swedish bank run-around

National: 4 Mar 10
When US citizen Sylvie Acra arrived in Sweden and began her search for a job she decided it would be wise to open a standard bank account, but after three visits to three major Swedish banks she remains dissatisfied. READ »

Tax agency ready for June 1st ID card rush

National: 29 May 09
After two and half years of waiting, immigrants arriving in Sweden will finally be able to obtain Swedish national identity cards, and the tax agency is expecting to accept a flood of applications starting June 1st. READ »

Immigrant ID cards set for June launch

National: 3 Apr 09
Immigrants living in Sweden will be able to receive national identification cards from the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) from June 1st, it was announced on Friday. READ »

Foreigners can't bank on Swedish ID

Society: 5 Mar 08
Foreign students continue to feel marginalized by Swedish society as a result of confusion regarding the issuing of Swedish identity cards. READ »

Foreigners to be issued Swedish ID - from 2009

National: 17 Dec 07
Foreigners living in Sweden will be eligible for Swedish ID if the conclusions of a new inquiry are accepted by the government. But the new system will not be introduced until 2009. READ »

Nordea takes over Svensk Kassaservice offices

Business & Money: 1 Oct 07
Nordic banking giant Nordea is to take over the running of around 70 Svensk Kassaservice offices from Posten. A union official welcomed the move. READ »

European ID 'must be accepted in Sweden'

National: 19 Jul 07
People from European Union countries must be allowed to identify themselves in Sweden using ID documents from their home countries, the European Commission has said. But plans to start issuing Swedish ID to people from other EU states could be illegal, it adds. READ »

Supermarket rescues asylum seekers

Society: 7 May 07
New security rules mean asylum seekers are being shut out by state-owned Svensk Kassaservice. Now, the only way for them to receive their benefits is through the ICA grocery chain, in a deal costing the state millions. READ »

Inquiry over immigrant ID card problem

Politics: 26 Mar 07
Sweden's government is to set up an inquiry into the problem of immigrants being denied Swedish ID cards. But Liberal Migration Spokesman Fredrik Malm says that action is needed now. READ »

Kassaservice to be replaced by private sector

Business & Money: 16 Mar 07
Svensk Kassaservice, the state-owned counter service at which Swedes can pay bills and order ID cards, is to close. The government plans to commission the services from private businesses. READ »

Immigrant ID: Readers' reactions

Analysis & Opinion: 1 Mar 07
The Local's recent series of articles on the problems faced by immigrants in getting Swedish identity cards has provoked a strong reaction from readers. Here's what they're saying. READ »

Officials ordered to solve ID problem

Politics: 23 Feb 07
Ministers have ordered top civil servants from three government departments to investigate the problem that immigrants to Sweden are being barred from getting Swedish ID cards. READ »

'The ID card issue is just killing us'

Society: 16 Feb 07
A Polish couple tells The Local about their fruitless attempts to obtain ID cards from a Swedish bank. READ »

Sweden 'breaking EU law' over ID ban

Society: 16 Feb 07
Sweden could be breaking European law by making it too difficult for citizens of other EU countries to get Swedish ID cards, a spokesman for the European Commission has told The Local. READ »

Liberals vow to tackle immigrant ID muddle

Politics: 16 Feb 07
The Liberal Party's migration spokesman Fredrik Malm is to raise questions in Sweden's parliament following The Local's revelations that immigrants have been barred from receiving Swedish ID cards. READ »

Immigrants blocked from getting Swedish ID

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Feb 07
The Local Exclusive: People moving to Sweden since January have been barred from getting Swedish ID cards – unless they have Swedish spouses. The muddle leaves thousands unable to carry out basic activities. READ »

Armed robbers target Christmas booty

National: 23 Dec 06
Christmas is proving to be a busy period for Swedish robbers. In Stockholm alone three major raids took place on Saturday, while in Simrishamn in Skåne a forklift truck was used in a robbery on a jewellers. READ »

Wave of cash robberies over Sweden

National: 9 Nov 06
Thursday has seen three armed cash robberies in different parts of Sweden. Two cash deliveries have been raided, as has a bank in the south of the country. READ »

Svensk Kassaservice 'should be closed'

Business & Money: 31 Oct 06
Petrol stations and supermarkets should take over the role of Svensk Kassaservice in providing basic banking services in communities. The service currently costs 400 million kronor a year in subsidies. READ »

Passer-by seizes Helsingborg armed robber

National: 18 Aug 06
A member of the public managed to overpower a man who had just carried out an armed raid on a Svensk Kassaservice outlet in Helsingborg on Friday. READ »

Swedish post office posts billion kronor profit

Business & Money: 21 Feb 06
Despite largely unchanged turnover Posten, the Swedish post office, managed to make a profit of over a billion kronor for the second year in a row. READ »

Svensk Kassaservice to close in 2007

National: 2 Dec 05
Sweden's largest provider of over-the-counter financial services, Svensk Kassaservice, is to close from July 2007, according to a proposal expected before Christmas. READ »

Violent raid closes Stockholm motorway

National: 29 Aug 05
A busy Monday for police and fire services as two armed robberies in the space of a few hours leave roads strewn with spikes and burning cars. One suspect has already been arrested. READ »


Highlights from Follow Sweden

20 things to know before moving to Sweden

As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »

How far can English take you in Sweden?

Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »


Blog Update: Julie's Nordic Island

12 February 21:30

The consciousness of one »

"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »

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An inside look at 'The Office' in Swedish
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Swedish mother gave 3-year-old cigs and beer
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Five Swedish songs that never made Eurovision
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Swenglish comedy star Ben Kersley explains how ‘three bespectacled English guys’ plan to make Swedes laugh
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Swedish word of the day

fin

adjective

Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.



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