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After the alarm report: “Assistance is hijacked”
All major assistance companies have employees with connections to criminal networks, authorities warn in a new report. The government now wants to get to the welfare criminals.
Minister of Social Services Camilla Waltersson Grönvall (M) believes that a serious pattern is confirmed in the new report, with "system-threatening" crime that has penetrated welfare.
– We can see that assistance is no longer safe, it is hijacked and exploited by organized crime. And we simply cannot have it like that, she says at a press conference on Tuesday.
Honest users or assistance providers should not be made suspicious, she continues.
– The government stands on the side of the vulnerable, not those who exploit themselves at their expense.
An inquiry has now been appointed to propose measures against welfare crimes within personal assistance. This involves regulating family assistance, inspecting LSS operations, improving control of reported assistance and a new system for follow-up, which according to the government does not exist today.
– It may be police reports or reports of concern that today lead to action. But then people may have been in terrible situations for a long time, because there is no other follow-up option, says the Minister of Social Services.
Criminals under white surface
The new report, which is backed by the Swedish Social Insurance Agency and the Swedish Police Authority, shows that four out of ten users have encountered personal assistants who are connected to or active in organized crime. All 62 of the largest assistance companies employed people with connections to criminal networks during the period investigated in 2022 and 2023.
"The analysis shows that gang criminals and their families largely operate in the assistance industry," the Swedish Social Insurance Agency writes in a press release.
This concerns both representatives and personal assistants. Almost half of all companies studied have personal assistants with network connections, and around 90 percent of users are at those companies.
Often, the companies present a "white facade", according to the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, but with criminal activity under the surface. This may involve the user's care needs being exaggerated, assistance not being provided, users and employees not being allowed to be in Sweden or medical certificates being falsified.
"This means, among other things, that people in vulnerable situations are neglected and that disabled people are used as tools of crime - it is not uncommon for children to be harmed," writes the Swedish Social Insurance Agency.
Assuming that the police act
The consequences are described as major and the blow is twofold: Users risk receiving inadequate help, while the compensation ends up in the pockets of criminals and can finance other crimes.
– Authorities have not had sufficient tools or a clear mission to curb this, says Jessica Stegrud (SD), social policy spokesperson, at the press conference.
The government's new investigation will not present its results until January 2027, i.e. six months after the next election.
Jessica Stegrud thinks the measures actually come too late.
– This erodes the resources in the welfare system and it affects individuals.
There have been many alarms about criminals exploiting the welfare system. Camilla Waltersson Grönvall says she assumes that the authorities will now act based on the information in the report.
“Crime is crime even today,” she says.
About the report
The report is part of a joint government initiative against organized crime and is based on a large number of cross-checks of government data.
A joint intelligence center has investigated payments of Social Insurance Agency benefits to around 62,000 people who are active or are considered to be associated with criminal networks.
The analyses are based on 946 assistance companies, of which 699 are private assistance providers.
14 agencies are participating in the initiative, which is being carried out on behalf of the government, including the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, the Swedish Enforcement Authority, the Swedish Police Authority, the Swedish Tax Agency and the Swedish Security Service.
Source: Swedish Social Insurance Agency
