According to information from The Pensions Authority and Bailiff are more and more people cheating on their pension. Now a record number of Swedes are forced to pay back millions.
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There are several ways to increase your income as a pensioner. News24 has previously written about how as a pensioner you can increase your income to SEK 30,000 a month by being a “jobbonaire” – a pensioner who works. This group has proven to be able to earn an average of SEK 173,000 a year from their work.
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Then you may be forced to repay your pension
The enforcement officer helps the Pensions Authority find and request the return of the hundreds of millions of kroner that were wrongly paid out. Last year, it was about SEK 179 million in recoveries.
– We deepened the collaboration in the spring of 2023, it has been very successful, says the Swedish Pensions Agency’s director general Anna Pettersson Westerberg in an interview in The newspaper Näringslivet.
Much of the benefits that are paid out, such as housing allowance and guarantee pension, are based on how people state that they live – information that is not always correct. It is when the enforcement officer visits homes that they most often discover fraud. For example, it may turn out that there are assets in the residence that you did not declare, or that there are more people living there than what was stated. This can result in you being awarded grants you are not entitled to.
So far this year, the collaboration has resulted in over 100 cases and stopped future payments of a total of SEK 24 million, which is significantly more than in previous years.
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Source: nyheter24.se
