Together with her husband and their two children, aged two and four years, moved Emma Lindh back to Skellefteå after ten years in Ireland.
” The first thing we did was to enter the us with the Tax and national Insurance to be able to take part of, for example, child benefit and föräldrapennig and also sickness benefit if it would be in the news.
documents and certificate of Insurance and the investigation could get started, thought the pair. But when Emma Lindh has not heard anything from the authority in two months she called the social security office.
” Then I got the answer: Unfortunately, it is 55.000 applications prior to and the nine month waiting period.
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She asked if they could prioritise her case, which the Insurance agency said they could investigate. But two months later, Emma Lindh has not yet received any information about her case should be a priority.
” I have a temporary employment as a substitute teacher and it is not good paid. My partner is irish and goes on the SFI. He has a part time job, but it is on the eight hours per week, “says Emma Lindh and continues:
” So it’s pretty tight financially. Neither I or my husband can, for example, take out any maternity allowance if pre-school has closed because of planeringsdag or planning for parental leave.
She says, however, that a consolation is that they will get the money retroactively as soon as they are granted försäkringstillhörighet.
But nine months of waiting is deplorable and we need the money now.
Unfortunately, there are 55.000 applications prior to and the nine month waiting period.
Emma Lindh if the answer she got from the social Insurance office.
you have försäkringstillhörighet to be able to take part in various social insurance as child and housing benefits, sick or maternity pay. It is something everyone who moves to Sweden must apply for – even if you have lived in the country or are american citizens.
the Agency’s field of activity försäkringstillhörighet has, on several occasions over a period of two years been criticised by the parliamentary ombudsman, JO, for their long processing time. In October put the WELL down the foot, and directed sharp criticism against the authority which a mother, who has moved from England to Sweden, have to wait almost a year to hear if her child has the right to child benefit.
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in October, the notifications against the authority continued to come in to JO, who believe that no improvement has been seen. In 2018, has the social Insurance agency reported a 50-times.
” We have had a lot of new notifications, but we don’t ask the cashier to investigate all but refers to previous investigations in the decision to the notifier. So far, the 36 pieces that we have written since the decision in October, ” says Anneli Svensson, head of division at JO.
In several notifications, which DN has taken part of, it is stated that the notifier has been told that the investigation could take six months or longer. In some cases, refers the social Insurance, to social services where they can apply for income support during the investigation.
all the time been high workload, something which JO has not been seen as a reasonable explanation.
at the same time, the authority has hired 112 new persons in the period to september 2017 and August 2018 to the department försäkringstillhörighet. Today there are a total of 221 employees involved with the handling in the field.
“We have 50 new investigators in training, and the ongoing recruitment of approximately 40 new investigators,” says Elisabeth Rydberg, as well as in the department concerned.
– It is a combination of several cases that we need to investigate if people should be insured in Sweden, says Elisabeth Rydberg and continues:
another factor is that we, in the autumn of 2017 began to make more extensive investigations in the field of försäkringstillhörighet, we investigate, among other children, which we have not done before. But we are not at all satisfied with the fact that it goes so slowly and we regret that it is so.
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today, there are nearly 65.000 cases of försäkringstillhörighet, of which approximately 37,000 cases concern persons who come to Sweden and will be insured.
– Unfortunately I have not any, more than that, we are working with it to get better, ” says Elisabeth Rydberg.
Småbarnspappan Richard Raikko, and his wife shares a similar story as Emma Lindh. The couple and their two children moved back to Sweden in October after six years in England.
” We both are Swedish citizen, has lived in Sweden for 40 years before we moved. When we apply for the right to take part of the parental allowance and child benefit, we should not hear anything. We have no administrators, you have not even begun to look at our paper, ” says Richard Raikko.
My wife who is at home with the youngest can not take out parental benefits
Richard Raikko about what the long processing time means for the family
and in the beginning lived the family borrowed money to get the everyday life to go around because Richard Raikko missing job.
” We have a certain dependency because we have two young children (two months and six years). Today I have the job since a month back. But my wife who is at home with the youngest can not take the parental allowance, now she has begun to study and get student loans. But it is not enough anywhere.
however, It is not only the field of försäkringstillhörighet drawn with long processing times. Even the department which is investigating the reimbursement of health care abroad has been criticised for its long processing time.
– it is also there Where big problems. It says in the law that it should not take more than 90 days to deal with such a case and it does not succeed in the social Insurance stick to, ” says Anneli Svensson.
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