Monday, June 1, 2015

She was forced to pay back 100 000 in child benefits – Sydsvenskan

The Swedish Social Insurance Agency believes that Mrs Winkler has no right to family allowances for the years 2007-2011. Therefore, they must repay five years of contribution by each month to pay 800 kronor to the Swedish state.

It does not help that the children attended kindergarten in Sweden and her husband Michael worked and underestimated in Sweden.

After three years installments amounting debt right now to 24,252 crowns.
– It is really our children’s money. We could have done something much more fun for them. They had sufficed for an annual family trip, said Mary Winkler.

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When she talks about how the family caught between Danish and Swedish rules for cross-border commuters shortcomings Mary Winkler several times in laughter.

But when she talks about the helplessness she felt when she tried to do their watering eyes. Thousand patches has literally drained away from the family account because slips from the Social Insurance Agency and other authorities been so unclear.

Not anywhere on the SSIA website she found information about the person who takes a job in Denmark can get rid of their Swedish child allowance.

When Mary Winkler had worked at SAS for four years, she contacted the Danish Insurance Agency.

She had heard of colleagues the child allowance retroactively could be increased by the amount of younger children constitute the difference between the Swedish child allowance and a higher Danish “børnepenge”.

Since the two children born, 2005 and 2006, had Mary Winkler monthly with the Swedish contribution deposited in the family account. Insurance Agency had automatically made the mother of the receiver.

Now, searched Maria Winkler a small sum børnepenge, but never got the answer from either the Swedish or the Danish authorities. Only after half a year, she received a shocking response from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency:

“You have over five years wrongly received the Swedish child allowance. You can gainfully employed in Denmark do not be the recipient of a Swedish child support. “

Marie explained that she and her husband were married and cohabiting in Malmo. They had joint finances. Her husband worked as a salesman in Sweden. He worked and understated in Sweden.
– Our family account happens to be on me. It is well just to overwrite the child allowance at him, suggested Maria Winkler.
– How easy is it not replied Insurance Agency.

Mary Winkler wrote of child allowance on her husband Michael. Social Insurance Agency’s decision was to recover child support for five years from Marie Winkler.

The recovery was over 100 000 SEK. Subsequently awarded the Social Insurance retroactive child support to her husband, but only for two years.

– How are the rules, I was told. When it comes to debt to them is insurance agency to any lengths back in time. But when it comes to their own debts to others, they just two years, explains Maria Winkler.

She nagged itself to a further six months contribution because Insurance Agency had actually delayed the matter for half a year.

Mary Winkler also received a payment plan because the family could not pay the entire debt as a lump sum.
– It was March 25, 2012. Our debt was determined 34,499 SEK rate to 9 percent. Since then, we have paid off the debt each month, said Mary Winkler with a strained smile.

Then she becomes serious:
– a family with children can not be without child support. What should the Social Insurance with my children’s allowance to? All politicians and officials at a higher level says that there is a development in terms of border barriers. But it did not notice the border commuters, says Maria Winkler.
– I have not done anything wrong. I have not tried to take advantage of one or the other system. I have just tried to get the contributions my children are entitled. Then I caught between two systems.

Michael Winkler worked at SAS in Copenhagen and Mary Winkler as a salesman in Malmö had family problems have been out of the world. At that time the Social Insurance Agency never questioned payments because the mother is automatically considered to be beneficiaries. When the family had been able to expand the Swedish child allowance with Danish børnepenge.

Mary Winkler sounds almost heartbroken when she talks about how she sat in the hour-long telephone queues at the Social Insurance to be connected to the gear or the right administrator. When she learned to record the name and direct number of those who had charge of her case it often happened that the officers did not respond. It helped not to leave messages.

Mary Winkler border commuting cost on. When her first child was born the couple lived Winkler in Finland. Then led unclear statement from the Swedish and Finnish authorities that the family lost more than 100 000 in case of no parental benefits.

Mary Winkler know that she is not alone in his concerns. At SAS in Copenhagen she meets daily colleagues who have problems with parental, child support, paternity leave and health insurance. Some of them have paid SEK 20 000 in legal bills to try to obtain redress. Some may be right, others may only see their debt grow. Therefore, Mary Winkler and her husband tried to forget the past and instead look ahead.

Just recently, Mary Winkler in contact with Anna Lena Gustafsson, a former SAS-employed and active in the Danish cabin compartment . Today, Anna Lena Gustafsson to assist border commuters who butted their heads bloody against the Danish and Swedish authorities.

– There may be a chance for Maria to get some of their money back. It was the Social Insurance who did wrong from the start. Marie reported in 2007 that she was due to jobs in Denmark no longer belonged to the Swedish Social Insurance Agency. When did the insurance agency know that she was not entitled to Swedish child allowance. Yet they continued to pay the contribution to her account in another five years, says Anna Lena Gustafsson.

– That mistake should not Mary have to pay for.

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