Despite the successful hunting of vabfuskare hann Insurance agency is not with – Sveriges Radio

a Record number, over 1 000 parents have polisanmälts in 2016, after having cheated with the vab during the last year. But the checks stopped. Niklas Löfgren, family budget spokesperson on the social security office tells us why:

” We were forced to it. It turned out that we found more than we thought and we had underestimated how large the staffing we needed to have in order to meet the influx of cases that got stuck in the controls. During the summer we had to take a break and stop the influx of the controls in order to be able to investigate the cases that we already had, ” says Niklas Löfgren.

the started work for a new model in which focuses on those in a structured way suspected of exploiting the temporary parental benefit that is paid out at the vab, when the child is sick and must stay home. The model has yielded results: Over a thousand parents have polisanmälts for suspected bidragsbrott in 2016 in comparison with more than 200 notifications 2014. The social insurance agency has demanded more than 86 million until december 21, 2016 in comparison with the total of 15 million throughout 2014.

But when the social Insurance received a too large inflow of cases stopped the thus the controls of vabfusket during the five month period of time, despite the successful verification process. Niklas Löfgren again:

–Yes, I think this was a pity, it would have been better if we had more, of course. But now we’ve also designed if the control during this period so that we shall be able to investigate more cases per person in the future, ” says Niklas Löfgren.

Had it not have been better to extraanställa staff to be able to control this group as well?

” could we possibly have done, then you should possibly remember that it is not a fully trained staff that can jump in and work so from one day to another but it takes a while to do it too. Then it was so that we did not stop all the checks, but we stop just this kind of checks during this time. But just during the period we did of the reasons that I said, that it was congested in the kontrollsidan.

Then when you took a break of five months, what happens with those who did then systematically vab-cheating during the period?

–Yes they did it during the period, they get stuck most likely in control when we took it up again. Then, we go back in time, go through their cases and are also looking during this period, ” says Niklas Löfgren.

Karin Wettre
karin.wettre@sverigesradio.se