The moderates promised during the election campaign to pause the amortization requirement, but such a stop has not happened. Last spring, the government appointed a committee to analyze how the amortization requirement has worked so far and how it could change.
– Inflation and interest rates have run away. There is a risk here in being careless, which is much worse now than a year ago, says the Prime Minister in response to the question of why the amortization requirement has not been paused.
However, he received major backstabbing from the opposition during Tuesday’s party leader debate on TV4. Muharrem Demirok confronted the city minister about his broken election promise and Magdalena Andersson (S) did not buy inflation as an explanation.
– Inflation was also high when your finance minister stood in the election campaign and said that it just needs to be fixed. So there is another breach of election promise by the government, she said.
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The amortization requirement means that most people who take out a mortgage must amortize, i.e. pay off a certain percentage of the mortgage every year. How much depends on the size of the loan, income and the value of the home.
The amortization requirement is one of several measures with the aim of managing households’ high indebtedness.
Watch the exchange in the video above.