The Pension Authority is working hard to curb incorrect payments. Now it is reported on several requirements they want to apply in order for the work to be notified. “We hope that our suggestions for measures will be prioritized,” they write in an email to News24.
On Tuesday, March 11, the Pensions Agency announced that it was estimated that incorrect payments and contributions amount to SEK 1.3 billion – only in the pension area.
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They demand back SEK 227 million
In order for the authority to work even more efficiently, measures and rule changes are now being demanded that will make it possible to access and avoid the high proportion of crime linked to the Swedish pension system.
On its homepage The authority writes that they account for most of the payments in welfare and that they are constantly working for the right money to be paid to the right people.
“In 2024, the Pension Authority paid approximately SEK 455 billion in pensions and benefits to 2.3 million pensioners. The authority has demanded SEK 227 million and stopped future incorrect payments of SEK 612 million, a total of SEK 840 million in 2024. This is an increase for the fourth year in a row and with 28 percent since 2023, ”they write.
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“We have implemented several efforts”
The Director General of the Pension Authority Anna Pettersson Westerberg says that control activities need investments.
– We have made several efforts that reduce the number of incorrect payments, especially more efficient handling. Each invested krona in the control business gives back just over SEK 8 in detected incorrect payments. An attorney’s work leads on average to SEK 4.5 million in recovery and SEK 16.5 million in stopped payments, a total of SEK 21 million.
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Pension Authority’s requirements: Four action
The suggestions on what measures you want to see are divided into four areas:
The Pension Authority believes that today there are challenges in a pensioner collecting current housing supplement. These include challenges with where the information is located. Therefore, they want to increase their own collection of documentation according to their own vision on declaration concepts.
In order for the Pension Authority to reach the goal of “right from the beginning” and thus have a greater effect on the work that is done to counteract the incorrect payments, simplified rules for housing allowance are needed.
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Automated information exchange between countries:
They believe that inadequate information and information on pensions from another country poses a high risk of incorrect payments in Sweden. Therefore, you want to see more automated exchanges of data within the EU, EEA and Switzerland.
Extended collaboration between authorities:
The pension authority wants a pensioner who is registered in Sweden despite the actual residence abroad is a source of incorrect payments. Therefore, according to them, it is necessary to increase collaboration between different authorities in order to have access to the right information from the beginning.
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The Pension Authority’s message: “We hope that …”
In order to find out when the Pension Authority considers that the proposals for rule changes should be applied has News24 heard from the authority. In an email response, the Pension Authority writes the press secretary, Johan Anderssonthat it is hoped to be prioritized by the government.
“We hope that our suggestions for measures will be prioritized as it helps our quest to minimize error payments. Then we also show that the measures lead to good effect in the case”.
In cases where you discover an inaccuracy after money has been paid out of the Pension Authority, they act directly, Andersson explains.
“We recover the amounts paid erroneously in the same way as other paying authorities,” he writes, adding concluded:
“In our case, the recovery is often a little larger because our payments extend over longer”.
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