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old age and invalidity insurance.
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sioner undergoes imprisonment for not less than a month, or has been
sentenced to compulsory labour (tvångsarbete). If he has relatives that are
dependent on him for their subsistence, the latter shall be entitled to receive the
increment during the said period.
The expenditure for the pension increments is defrayed as to s/i by the State,
as to 1/s by the communes, and as to 1 8 by the County Councils (landsting),
and the cities which are not represented in the "landsting" (Stockholm,
Gothenburg, Malmö, Norrköping aud Gävle). The aggregate public expenditure is
computed under the assumption that the system has settled down into normal
working order, and on the basis of the figures for 1907, at 38 million kronor
a year. The expenditure for the first year will be 3"65 million kronor, out of
which 2*66 million kronor devolve on the State.
Administration of the Insurance System. The administration of the insurance
system is vested, as above mentioned, in a Royal Pensions Board
(pensionsstyrelse; cf. below) for the whole of Sweden and in local organs ranging under
it, the local pensions committees (pensionsnämnder).
A local pensions committee shall be established for each pension district. As a
general rule, each commune shall comprise one such district, although in certain
cases-a commune may be divided into several pension districts, or contiguous communes
may be combined into one pension district. These pensions-committees shall consist
of a chairman and 2, 4, or 6 members, with an equal number of substitutes. A
deputy nominated by the Eoyal Pensions Board for each pension district in
order to guard the interests of the State, shall be entitled to take part in the
deliberations of the committees, but without a vote.
Applications for pensions shall be made in accordance with a prescribed
formula to the local pensions committee in the pension district in which the applicant
has last been registered as residing. The pensions committee decides on the ground
of the said application whether the applicant is entitled to a pension, and
determines the amount of the annual income that shall be taken as a base of the
amount of the increment to the pension. Appeal from the decisions of the
pensions committee may be made by private persons, communes, the public
deputies, and the chairman of the committee. The appeal lies to the Royal
Pensions Board.
The Royal Pensions Board, which to begin with is composed of a
director-general and six members besides a large number of other officials, shall with
regard to each pension estimate and determine the amount, and, if the pension
amounts to at least 6 kronor a year, issue a pension certificate (pensionsbrev),
which shall be forwarded to the pensioner through the medium of the pension
committee. Private persons have no appeal from the finding of the Royal
Pensions Board. This right accrues only to the Attorney-General (justitielcanslern),
and, with his sanction, to the commune, the chairman of the committee, and
the public deputies. The court in this instance is the Supreme Administrative
Court.
The pensions are paid through the Post Office.
Voluntary Insurance. Voluntary insurance extends to all Swedish persons
that have attained the age of 15, and thus also to those who have been
exempted from the payment of fees for compulsory insurance (State servants). The
fee shall be at least 1 krona, and shall not exceed 30 kronor a year. The
pension, which shall be granted in the event of disablement or on the attainment
of the age of 67, is as regards men, for each fee paid, 1 V2 % of the amount
of the fee for every completed year that has elapsed from the day the fee was
paid to the day from which the pension is payable. As regards women, the
pension is 5/6 of the corresponding amount for men. The State adds to each
pension an amount equivalent to Vs of the voluntary fee paid during the year.
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