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Social Progress 355
lished; protection to life and limb of the laborer has
been provided; regulations regarding the labor of
women and children have been made, protecting them
from hurtful labor and overexertion, likewise regula-
tions for compensation to the laborer in case of acci-
dents or injuries while at work and aid in case of sick-
ness. Loans are made by the state to laborers, enabling
them to build their own homes ; old-age pensions have
also been established.
At the Eiksdag in 1913 an act for a general people’s
pension was passed. Henceforth every citizen, man or
woman, permanently disabled for work, and in all
cases at sixty-seven years of age, is entitled to a pen-
sion. Hence, every person able to work must pay to
the state an annual pension fee from the calendar year
in which he or she reaches the age of sixteen years to
the age of sixty-six years. This annual fee varies from
three to thirty-three crowns (a crown =26.8 cents)
according to the annual income of each one. These fees
with the interest are not sufficient to provide a proper
support. Hence, the state and the local community also
contribute to the support of the most needy.
The indolent, the drunkards, and convicts, however,
receive no contributions from the state and the local
community. In like manner those who have shown
themselves obstinate and remiss in their contributions
or who have made false reports as to incomes receive
no contributions from the state and community.
This pension is more burdensome to Sweden than it
would be to other lands, because there are in propor-
tion to population nearly twice as many persons past
sixty-seven years of age as in other civilized lands.
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