overview of social insurance in sweden
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Overview of Social Insurance in Sweden. Sweden - General Facts. Area: 450,000 km 2 (174,000 sq mi) About 9,3 million inhabitants Average life expectancy from birth: men 77.9 years, women 82.4 years Capital: Stockholm (829,417 inhabitants). Greater Stockholm is about 2 million inhabitants - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Overview of Social Insurance in Sweden
• Area: 450,000 km2 (174,000 sq mi)
• About 9,3 million inhabitants
• Average life expectancy from birth: men 77.9 years,
women 82.4 years
• Capital: Stockholm (829,417 inhabitants).Greater Stockholm is about 2 million inhabitants
• Major cities: Göteborg (507,330), Malmö (293,909)
• Most common surname: Johansson
Sweden - General Facts
Population• World’s oldest system of population records
(church parish records from 1686)
• 71% live in nuclear families (1990 census)
• 80% live in urban areas and along the coast
• Most retire at age 65. 17.4% retire at 65+
• Very elderly (80+) 5.3%
• Fertility rate: presently 1.94 children per woman – Long-term average of ≈ 1.8
• Covers the entire population
• Based on work or residence
• Provides both basic protection and income-related benefits
• Facilitates free movement between different employers and geographic regions
• Financed through a mixture of contributions and general tax revenues
The Swedish Model
• Support to families with children
• Sickness, disability & work injury insurance
for loss of income
• Unemployment insurance, services & training
• Pension insurance
• Student allowances
• Health care, medicine and dental care
• Social assistance
• Care for the handicapped and elderly
Security in all phases of the life cycle
Categories of Benefits• Social insurance payments are based on the Income
Replacement Principle with a ceiling on contributions for pensions and on benefits for other payments.
• Guarantee levels for old age pensions, permanent disability, for the registered unemployed and for parental benefits.
• Allowances non-means tested (child allowance) and means-tested social assistance and housing allowances.
• Universal health for all residents and home care for aged (small co-payments)
Administrative Order
City Hall Municipalities (290)• care for children and families• care for elderly• social assistance (cash transfers)
County Councils (21)• health care in general
The State• cash transfers (social insurance)
Supervisory Structure of Swedish Social Security
Ministry of Finance
Ministry of Health and Social Affairs
Ministry of Labor
Tax AuthorityCollects:
National Board of Health and
Welfare
Supervises:
Social Insurance Agency
Pays:
National Employment
Agency
Government
National Financial Management
Authority
• Acounting standards
• Sets standards and monitors
results for financial
performance and efficiency
Parliament National Audit Office
Social Insurance Supervisory Authority
Unemployment Insurance Board
Agency for Public Management
Institute for LM
Policy Evaluation
• Contributions• Income taxes• Value added
tax• All other taxes
• Independent auditor• Audits of all government agencies
• Delivers to government and parliament
• Follows up and evaluates the
management of public agencies
• Sickness and disability
• Family benefits• Handicap benefits
• Health Care• Services for parents, elderly
and handicapped
• Social assistance• Special programs
• Web based nationwide listing of available jobs
• Employer contacts• Job search services• Training, education
programsPensions Agency
• Pensions
Pays:
Personal registration number
All citizens:
Personal code number
64 08 23 - 323 4
Date of birth Birth No. Control digit
Introduced in 1947 (1967)
RFV - supervising government agency, head office in StockholmIT-department in Sundsvall, Kalix, Söderhamn and Karlskrona
21 independent social insurance offices
Individual case management
Organisation before 2005
1 January 2005
The administrative reform
One organisation
One committee
One principal
22 organisations
22 forms of governance
22 cultures
A coherent government agencyThe Government’s demands:
• Clear leadership
• Common attitudes
• One single human resource policy
With the objective to break the development of the ill-health absence
• 54 million pay outs a year (including pensions)• 15 national and 53 local insurance centre• 5 Customer Center and Self Service• Around 260 local offices• Around 12,900 employees• Stockholm – head office
The Swedish Social Insurance Agency
Citizens meet Försäkringskassan in different ways (yearly basis)
• 1.1 million visits
• 8.8 million telephone calls • 2.3 million service telephone transactions• 416 000 e-mail
• 19.6 million visits• of which 8.2 million to My pages (Mina sidor) • 136 000 sms
• 45 million letters sent • 644 different forms
Internet
Customer centre
Local offices
Letters and forms