The grant fraud: 80 percent of the money goes to immigrants

Published 10 August 2024 at 13.23

Domestic. Foreign-born account for 80 percent of the cost of incorrect payments from the Social Insurance Agency, and when it comes to assistance compensation, immigrants seize eight times more incorrect payments than Swedes. This is evident from a new report from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency.

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In the report, the Swedish Social Insurance Agency divides the incorrect payments into the groups intentional fraud (subsidy violations) and non-intentional errors .

About the group of intentional cheaters, the Social Insurance Agency writes the following:

“Foreign-born tend to be over-represented in the intended group within almost all benefits presented. The over-representation is particularly large within assistance allowance, child allowance and parental allowance” .

When it comes to “assistance compensation”, errors are more than eight times as common among foreign-born compared to the group of domestic-born, according to Försäkringskassan.

The authority also specifically points out family-based networks as a risk factor that must be analyzed more deeply.

Part of the explanation for immigrants' large cheating may be linked to the fact that they choose to receive benefits and subsidies despite living abroad, according to the report.

The Social Insurance Agency's report was originally an internal document but was eventually made public after pressure from the personal mapping giant Verifiera, which requested the document under the principle of public disclosure.

Interesting about grant violations . Those born abroad are clearly overrepresented in all forms of benefit fraud, according to figures from Försäkringskassan published by Verifiera. https://t.co/gu554fVbld pic.twitter.com/ySvuSY89eb

— Per Gudmundson (@gudmundson_per) August 9, 2024