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Dad faked daughter’s mental illness for cash


A man in Sweden is accused of fraudulently claiming several million kronor in benefits after forcing his daughter to fake a mental illness for 11 years. Read the full story

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Denmark dishing out dole to bikers


More than half of people connected to biker gangs in Denmark are on benefits, according to new figures. Read the full story

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Sweden demands cash back for Angel’s hellish back pain fib


A Hell’s Angels leader has been ordered to pay back more than a million kronor in sickness benefits, after the Swedish Social Insurance Agency claimed he committed crimes that would have been impossible with his purported back pain. Kent Nilsson, who is a self-confessed Hell’s Angels chief from Lulea, northern Sweden, has received SEK 1.4 million (USD 200,000) in handouts since first reporting his back trouble to authorities in 1998. Read the full story

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Some Icelandic students take too much


krónurIcelandic university students have claimed around 300 million kronur in unemployment benefits. Read the full story

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