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."
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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.
WASHINGTON - The commander of the USS Constitution was relieved of duty because of a "loss of trust and confidence in his ability to command," a Navy spokesman said Thursday.
The Navy declined to provide specifics about why Commander Thomas C. Graves was removed as senior officer of the historic warship, known as "Old Ironsides." Graves removal, however, was not the result of disciplinary action, said a Navy spokesman, Commander Jeff A. Davis. "The decision to relieve him was an administrative matter that was based solely upon the senior officers assessment of Commander Graves ability to command effectively," said Davis.
Graves, who took command in July 2005, had been about two months away from completing his two-year tenure aboard the Constitution, said Davis. He was the 69th commander of the oldest commissioned ship afloat in the world. He has been temporarily assigned to Surface Warfare Officers School Command in Newport, R.I, Davis said.
Commander William A. Bullard III assumed command of the Constitution on Thursday morning. Bullard had been scheduled to take command in July.
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The Navy declined to provide specifics about why Commander Thomas C. Graves was removed as senior officer
....did he angrily pound on someone's porthole. Were diapers involved, mace or pepper spray, a knife, or platic bags? Lets just.... keep this all very quiet for now. It's the Navy way.
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Maybe he insulted some Muzzie visitors who were casing the joint for H.E. locations visiting the historical vessel.
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likely, AP
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Maybe he playing paratrooper and kept jumping off the yardarm (like the one idjit in Hawaii who had been, and thought he still was. Must be a common condition.)
The one that was covered was a 6-by-10-foot oil reproduction of a widely circulated pop culture photo showing pop star Britney Spears, sans underpants, getting out of a car, with Paris Hilton in the driver's seat. The Boling piece blurs the nudity.
"I wished we could have had a good dialog about freedom of speech," Boling said, but added "I understand that a politician would want to avoid being photographed in front of Britney Spears' crotch."
Phone calls to the Obama campaign yesterday asking for a response were not returned.
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Prolly just too busy mourning the deaths of 10,000 fellow Americans in Kansas. If only the Kansas National Guard hadn't been deployed to Syria, there would have been enough tanks to stop that tornado.
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Barak Obama gave a speach recently at an art museum. Before the speach some of his aides asked that several pieces be removed as they were not in keeping with Obama's image. This was one of the pictures.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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