https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Some Russian media outlets are reporting on a wave of mental illness sweeping across Sweden, referring to made-up figures and a faked interview with the director-general of the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, a spokesperson has told The Local. https://www.thelocal.se/20170425/russian-media-spread-fake-interview-with-swedish-social-insurance-agency Tue, 25 Apr 2017 19:33:05 +0200 russian-media-spread-fake-interview-with-swedish-social-insurance-agency Sweden's Social Insurance Agency claimed back 86 million kronor ($9.44 million) from parents wrongfully claiming benefits to look after their sick children in 2016. https://www.thelocal.se/20170102/record-number-of-parents-faking-childs-sick-leave-vabba Mon, 02 Jan 2017 09:32:42 +0100 record-number-of-parents-faking-childs-sick-leave-vabba Sweden's reputation as a country where people are fond of taking paid sick days is inaccurate, with most people reporting no days off work in a recent study, a rehabilitation science expert has argued. https://www.thelocal.se/20150104/swedish-sickness-benefit-sinks-to-record-lows Sun, 04 Jan 2015 20:57:00 +0100 swedish-sickness-benefit-sinks-to-record-lows A Swedish woman has been forced to return 700,000 kronor ($102,000) to the Swedish Social Insurance Agency after collecting sickness benefits despite being a successful, competitive runner. https://www.thelocal.se/20140716/woman-claims-sick-pay-despite-running-career Wed, 16 Jul 2014 18:01:00 +0200 woman-claims-sick-pay-despite-running-career An employee at an insurance agency in central Sweden will lose 15 days of pay as punishment for surfing the web on the job, spending over 40 hours this summer mainly using social media. https://www.thelocal.se/20140711/swede-gets-salary-chopped-for-using-facebook Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:44:00 +0200 swede-gets-salary-chopped-for-using-facebook Sweden's social insurance agency recovered 170 million kronor last year after it tightened its reins on catching benefit fraudsters, thanks largely to a healthy dose of snitching from irate Swedes. https://www.thelocal.se/20140402/snitching-swedes-benefit-cheats-2 Wed, 02 Apr 2014 12:27:00 +0200 snitching-swedes-benefit-cheats-2 Thousands of Swedes report their neighbours and relatives for benefits fraud each year, accounting for nearly half of all reports about suspected social insurance malfeasance. https://www.thelocal.se/20131111/snitching-swedes-help-unmask-benefits-cheats Mon, 11 Nov 2013 09:26:00 +0100 snitching-swedes-help-unmask-benefits-cheats Dads are staying at home with their children more in the summer according to statistics released by the social insurance office (Försäkringskassan). https://www.thelocal.se/20130804/49430 Sun, 04 Aug 2013 17:33:00 +0200 49430 Sweden's social insurance agency demanded that a 23-year-old cancer patient provide written proof of when he was expected to die before granting him benefits. https://www.thelocal.se/20130226/46408 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:34:00 +0100 46408 A Swedish woman receiving benefits to help fund her addiction to hairspray, make-up, and candy is upset that authorities have gone to court in an attempt to slash her entitlement. https://www.thelocal.se/20130124/45796 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:52:00 +0100 45796 Unexpectedly high sickness benefits claims have forced Sweden's social insurance agency to beg the government for an additional 2.5 billion kronor ($368 million) to ensure sick Swedes get paid while home from work. https://www.thelocal.se/20121113/44388 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:10:00 +0100 44388 A suspected fraudster in northern Sweden is under investigation for allegedly swindling the state out of 20 million kronor ($3 million) by claiming to be disabled, in what is being described as one of the biggest scams of its kind in recent years. https://www.thelocal.se/20121102/44202 Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:32:00 +0100 44202 A 29-year-old old Swedish man recently came home from the maternity ward with his newborn daughter and was surprised to learn that he was the father of not one, but two, children, according to records with Swedish authorities. https://www.thelocal.se/20120707/41888 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 12:26:00 +0200 41888 A young Swedish mother, recently diagnosed and treated for breast cancer, was told by National Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan), that she was not eligible for sickness benefits. https://www.thelocal.se/20120206/38948 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:13:00 +0100 38948 Sweden's social insurance agency Försäkringskassan 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. https://www.thelocal.se/20111118/37422 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:59:00 +0100 37422 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. https://www.thelocal.se/20111005/36564 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:02:00 +0200 36564 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. https://www.thelocal.se/20110807/35402 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:33:00 +0200 35402 An increasing number of Swedes are appealing benefits claims that have been denied by the country's social insurance agency. https://www.thelocal.se/20110307/32446 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:13:00 +0100 32446 People born in the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey are denied sick benefits twice as often as applicants born in Sweden, statistics from the country's social insurance agency reveal. https://www.thelocal.se/20110223/32206 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:08:00 +0100 32206 Former justice minister and senior Social Democrat, Thomas Bodström, has said that he "has a tough choice" after being told that his application for a leave of absence from Sweden's Riksdag to spend time in the US had been rejected. https://www.thelocal.se/20101013/29600 Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:20:00 +0200 29600