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old age and invalidity insurance.
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Royal Ordinance of the 18th June 1909 relating to Compensation for Injury
incurred in Military Service.
Under this enactment both the conscripts and the regulars of the Army and
Navy are ensured of compensation in the event of injury incurred in the course
of their service. Compensation under this enactment shall be paid for injuries
incurred both in peace and war, as well as for illness attended by bodily injury
which breaks out during or after the termination of military service, and as to
which there is reasonable presumption of its having been brought on by the
said service.
The regulations as to compensation are framed substantially in accordance
with the corresponding enactments in the Act of 1901. The payments however,
are, as a rule, 50 % higher, namely 1’50 kr per day in the case of temporary
injury, and an annuity not exceeding 450 kr in the case of permanent
disablement or death. The "karens" period, that is the time during which allowances
are suspended, is in the case of accidents incurred in military service reduced
to three days.
Old Age and Invalidity Insurance.
At the close of the eighteen-eighties, sundry private bills were brought
forward in the Riksdag in favour of the adoption, in some shape or
another, of old age insurance. One of these bills resulted in the appointment
of the so-designated "First Workmen’s Insurance Committee", which in
1889 submitted a scheme for old age insurance providing for compulsory
insurance of the entire nation.
Under the provisions of that scheme, costs should be defrayed from the fees
of the insured themselves, which should be paid for a period of ten years,
namely from the age of 19 to that of 28 inclusive. The amount of the fee was
fixed at 25 ore a week, that is, altogether 13 kronor a year. In return for
this, the insured at the age of 60 should receive an annual pension of 72
kronor.
The Committee’s scheme, however, never came before the Riksdag. In
lieu of this, the Government in 1891 commissioned the so-termed "New
Workmen’s Insurance Committee" to draft proposals for insurance against
invalidity, whether arising from old age or from accidents incurred in
work.
The Committee having duly submitted its proposals, the Government in
1895 brought forward a Bill in the Riksdag, on the basis thereof.
The Bill contained regulations for insurance against invalidity, to which
attainment of the age of 70 was defined to be equivalent, for all persons over
18 years of age employed at an annual salary of not exceeding 1 800 kronor.
The insured were divided into three classes with reference to pensions. The
insurance fees in these three classes were 20’oo, 12’60 and 7"60 kronor per annum
respectively, out of which amount the workpeople should contribute 12’60, 7’60
and 5 kronor respectively, and the employers the residue. The third class
included workmen’s wives, the fees for which latter should be defrayed by the
State. The amount of the pensions, after 50 years of insurance, was estimated
at 300 kronor in the highest class, 175 kronor in the intermediate class, and
100 kronor in the lowest class.
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