{"id":363261,"date":"2018-05-29T20:33:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T19:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/disproportionate-number-of-foreigners-have-debt-at-swedens-state-bailiffs\/"},"modified":"2018-05-29T20:33:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T19:33:37","slug":"disproportionate-number-of-foreigners-have-debt-at-swedens-state-bailiffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/disproportionate-number-of-foreigners-have-debt-at-swedens-state-bailiffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Disproportionate Number of Foreigners Have Debt at Sweden&#8217;s State Bailiffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>A disproportionate number of foreign-born people have debt registered at Sweden\u2019s state bailiffs Kronofogden, with 64 percent more debt relative to their proportion of the country&#8217;s population. And the disparity is growing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;45,000 debtors without a Swedish personal identity number are not included in the statistics. So the overrepresentation is likely even higher,&#8221; Davor Vuleta, who studied the phenomenon for Kronofogden, explained to news agency TT.<\/p>\n<p>A lack of higher education, unemployment, plus lower incomes are the main factors behind people ending up with debt registered at Kronofogen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that applies for everyone, regardless of their background. A lot is dependant on structural problems like employment and income, but you can&#8217;t entirely remove the individual&#8217;s own responsibility,&#8221; Vuleta noted.<\/p>\n<p>Tax debt is also more common among people who moved to Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Unpaid student debt, TV licenses and fines are also more common for foreigners in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Kronofogden is collaborating with other authorities like the Swedish Consumer Agency (Konsumentverket) and the Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen) in order to work on more preventative measures.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Comments<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/disproportionate-number-of-foreigners-have-debt-at-swedens-state-bailiffs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A disproportionate number of foreign-born people have debt registered at Sweden\u2019s state bailiffs Kronofogden, with 64 percent more debt relative to their proportion of the country&#8217;s population. And the disparity is growing. &#8220;45,000 debtors without a Swedish personal identity number are not included in the statistics. So the overrepresentation is likely even higher,&#8221; Davor Vuleta, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-363261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}