The salaries are prioritized and they will be paid out. We are not in the red, but some months are strained right before we have to pay fees and salaries, and therefore we need to have a credit check at the bottom, says the church council chairman Helén Persson to the newspaper.
The liquidity of the parish, Sweden's largest, is said to have dropped significantly over the past two years. However, without the church council being aware of the serious situation, according to Persson, who calls it "shocking".
She cannot explain how it happened.
It has simply become so.
The news about the economic situation reached the church council for the first time a month and a half ago, she says. One contributing factor is said to be the declining membership numbers in combination with high inflation.
