Unemployment benefit fraud
English summary of Brå report 2007:23
This study highlights the type of fraud whereby unemployment benefit is paid out at the same time as wages from black market
labour.
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- © Brottsförebyggande rådet 2008
- urn:nbn:se:bra-298
- Report 2007:23
About the study
The purpose of the study is to interview individuals who themselves have fraudulently claimed unemployment benefits or received unemployment benefit during the year 2006, to ascertain which factors make it possible to commit fraud, how fraud can take place and what kind of attitudes exist towards unemployment benefit fraud. An attempt will also be made to estimate how extensive the fraud that takes place as a consequence of black market labour is. This increase in knowledge will then form the basis for the report’s proposals for preventive measures to reduce fraud.
The research questions are:
- What attitudes towards fraud exist?
- Why do people commit fraud?
- How do people defraud unemployment insurance and how is the fraud made possible?
- How extensive is this kind of fraud?
- What can be done to reduce the extent of the fraud?