The Payment Agency started in January 2024 and is to detect and alert about faulty benefit payments and suspected benefit fraud.
Since November last year, over 1,400 notifications have been sent to authorities deciding on payments such as guaranteed pensions, sickness benefits, student aid, and wage subsidies. This has so far led to over 40 million kronor in claims and stopped future payments, as well as 25 police reports.
"This shows that we are already making a difference from the start and that we are hitting the mark with our notifications", says Per Eleblad, Director-General of the Payment Agency, in a press release.
In several cases, it has involved individual claims of millions of kronor.
Many of the 1,432 notifications sent have not yet been fully investigated and the amounts for claims and stopped payments are expected to increase.
