the Authority is a & nbsp; the of the company’s administrative authorities, and to pay, annually, out of about 300 million dollars in the form of a pension and housing allowance. The project is also to identify cheating by the bidragsbrott, and fraud. The twenty or so people are working on the controls, and carl-Magnus Nilsson says that they are constantly enhancing their operation.
“ There have been a number of unreported cases, but we have devoted more resources and made more effective in order to get access to the cheats.
if you like the Swedish law, for state financial protection floor: a guarantee pension and the housing supplement. In order to receive the payments is notified to the relevant Authority, where, inter alia, will be asked to enter their income, assets and housing costs.
the Grants are, among other things, linked to the population register and is based on their own individual honesty. Slightly modified, they must notify the company of it to the Authority, and this is why it is often the detected errors.
It may be false means that will give error – and, thus, the higher the pension or the housing supplement, or they have another source of income for their retirement without having to account for the money.
in the back, and around 100 million of all payments made in each year.
“ There are a variety of ways to cheat, which is to say that they live at an address despite the fact that they don’t do it. The registry office will not be there, “ says Karl-Magnus Nilsson.
the Suspect of the authority that a person has provided false information or knowingly not notified the change of circumstances is made, a report to the police. The number of polisanmälningar has increased from 14 in the year 2017, 50 polisanmälningar in 2019.
“ We’re reporting everything, that is, we believe, should be reported to the police, but the vast majority of the fraud is most likely due to inadvertent error, which has been a hyresförändring, separated, or have received in a lodger without having to report it. It’s not always easy for our senior citizens to learn how to do it. ”If no-one submits an bringing continued payment of the pension to be deposited in an account by the staff in Sweden is that the family members could take part in”, said Karl-Magnus Nilsson. Photograph: Fredrik Sandberg/TT
a new phenomenon has cropped up, which have ended up in the kontrollgruppens review: is it possible to be dead, and still receive a pension from the state?
“ Right now, we will look more closely at the pensions to be paid out, despite the fact that a person has died in the rest of the world. It is a very complicated process for us to review, “ says Karl-Magnus Nilsson.
for Many senior citizens. , dreaming of a life in the sun, and settle in another country. If you move to a country outside of the EUROPEAN union, the european economic area and Switzerland, are drawn the many school in and otherwise, continued many school-to tick in to your account.
„But if a man dies abroad, we want to stop the payments as soon as possible,“ says Karl-Magnus Nilsson.
to find a way round the law.
”the Authority has seen a hint on how to bypass its rules are disseminated in some of the ethnic groups, and among the expats. In some cases, it may be a question of several members of a family”, says the report of the crime against the welfare of the National underrättelsecentrum, NUC.
“ If no-one submits an bringing continued payment of the pension to be deposited in an account by the staff in Sweden is that the family members could take part in. This is usually done via an anonymous tip we get out of this, “ says Karl-Magnus Nilsson.
In the years 2019 has the Authority identified the improper payments to deceased retirees living abroad, in the ten cases, a total of 1.9 million dollars. The amounts vary between $ 10,000 and sek 500,000, in the most cases. The majority of the cases are reported to the police and investigations are under way, according to Karl-Magnus Nilsson.
We are asking, sometimes, the repayment of hundreds of thousands of dollars of a single person.
that is, when a person had immigrated to Sweden are of working age, on all but a handful of at the same time, have a foreign pension. In a sample of over 300 cases in the last year, it discovered about 40 percent of such cases, to the value of some of 190,000 per month, or 2.3 million a year.
For those who are doing it wrong, even sub-consciously, it can quickly become a very large amount of money to pay it back, not least for those who are already living on the margins.
„We are asking, sometimes, the repayment of hundreds of thousands of dollars of a person,“ says Karl-Magnus Nilsson.
in Spite of the fact that Swedish authorities to collaborate more in order to discover and prevent the abuse of the welfare system, it is a crime that continues to be widespread, and is being highlighted to be serious in the NUCLEAR report.
to detect it, is our new global society, with increased cross-border mobility, another important factor is that we have a tillitssamhälle, and that the social security system relies on people’s honesty.
Often, the authorities have to rely on tips in order to get access to the cheat.
„our Message is that you must give notice as soon as the economy or other circumstances are changing,“ says Karl-Magnus Nilsson.
there are No requirements for proof of identity in order to get the co-ordination number.
the Tightening of the punishment for the bidragsbrott
