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| Blind' motorist caught driving three times |
| 2007-05-11 |
| A motorist in Helsingborg has been ordered to pay back over a quarter of a million kronor in disability benefits after claiming to be blind for a period of ten years. The person in question was caught driving a car on three separate occasions while at the same time receiving benefits totalling 268,000 kronor ($38,500). The Swedish Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan) explained its decision to request reimbursement in a letter to the individual concerned: "While investigating your case in the autumn of 2006, we received information suggesting that you cannot be considered sightless. "It was found that you drove a car in January 1999, received a fine for again driving a car in May 2004, and were involved in a traffic accident in July 2006 in which you yourself were the driver." |
| Posted by:Delphi2005 |
| #1 Sounds like a problem for DMV not Social Insurance. Don't they have ophthalmologists in Sweden who can compare a person's sight impairment to the Social Insurance standards? That, of course, assumes that the standard isn't whether or not one can drive a car. |
| Posted by: GK 2007-05-11 21:27 |