The background is that the Swedish Social Insurance Agency currently has difficulty carrying out certain checks to detect fraud with, for example, parental benefit and temporary parental benefit (vab).
Investigator Erik Janzon believes that there is a great need for a national absence register.
"It is a fundamental criterion if the child is actually in someone else's care while this compensation has been requested. Then it is an incorrect payment," he says.
The idea is that the National Agency for Education will keep the register and that both municipal and independent schools and preschools will have an obligation to report children's absences. The absence register could prevent major incorrect payments. According to the investigator, this is between 550 and 785 million kronor annually.
The investigator also suggests that the Swedish Social Insurance Agency should carry out a "data lift" to become better at, for example, continuously reconciling income information with sickness benefit.
Minister of Social Insurance Anna Tenje (M) says that she will take note of the proposals, which she sees as "important and interesting".
