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56,000 people over age 65 have not received a Swedish pension – to the Pension Authority is not able to reach them. Together they have lost pensioners entitled to half a billion dollars a year, reports the Echo on Swedish Radio.
56,000 people over age 65 have not received a Swedish pension – to the Pension Authority is not able to reach them. Together they have lost pensioners entitled to half a billion dollars a year, reports the Echo on Swedish Radio.
It’s about retirement eligible individuals who could not be reached because they moved to an unknown location.
– Most of them think we come from the Nordic countries, about 40 per cent from Finland, says Arne Paulsson, a pension expert at the Swedish Pensions Agency, to echo.
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Nearly 20,000 Finns may be entitled to a Swedish pension. Arne Paulsson explains that it mostly concerns people who have worked in Sweden for a few years in the 1960s and 70s. Now Pensions Agency to contact their colleagues in the Nordic countries in an attempt to get in touch with pensioners.
But even if the majority – three quarters of them – come from the Nordic countries as also includes several thousand from other countries, such as Greece and Turkey, among the pensioners authority is not able to reach. How these should be tracked is not yet clear.
Arne Paulsson on Pensions Agency believes that this is a problem that will grow, given that more work abroad for a time in life.
– We can probably expect that we will have more people we have no address, says Paulsson echo.
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