FRIDAY 6 NOVEMBER· STOCKHOLM · THE DAY IN 5 STORIES

Swedish court upholds loss of sickness benefit after agency error

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Sweden’s Supreme Administrative Court has upheld a woman’s loss of sickness benefit after Försäkringskassan discovered, during an annual inflation review, that it had wrongly treated her income as protected.

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