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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11339

20 June 2015
Contents Publication in full By article 23 / 37
SOCIAL AFFAIRS / (ae) social
Sweden must reclassify its parental allowance

Brussels, 19/06/2015 (Agence Europe) - The Swedish parental allowance (the “föräldrapenning”), which is paid to people who give up work to look after a child, should be classified as “family benefits” rather than “maternity, paternity and similar benefits”, the European Commission stated in a reasoned opinion sent to the Swedish authorities on Thursday 18 June.

The Commission is calling on Sweden correctly to apply regulation 883/2004 on the coordination rules for Social...

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