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The effect is not very large on the individual level, but it is still of large

economic importance. The government’s total expenditure on temporary

parental benefit in 2013 was about SEK 5.78 billion (EUR 0.66 billion).

About 101,000 applications were selected for monitoring in 2013 and each

benefit day is on average worth SEK 910. If we assume that monitoring

decreases the paid benefit days by 1.4 per cent, the expenditure on

temporary parental benefit was about SEK 12 million (EUR 1.3 million)

lower than without the monitoring.

15

A rough estimate is that the

monitoring system costs between SEK 3 (EUR 0.33) and 9 (EUR 1)

million per year, depending on whether only labour costs or the total

administrative costs for the SSIA are included.

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The effect of monitoring on

the benefit expenditure exceeds the costs of monitoring. This applies even

though the calculations do not take into consideration that the monitoring

has a direct effect in itself.

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The average number of days on temporary parental benefits is 9.2 per year and

the average daily cost is 910 SEK. Thus, given an effect estimate of -.014, the

benefits from 101,000 controls is SEK 11.8 million (= -0.014*9.2*SEK

910*101,000).

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The calculation is based on 101,000 monitored applications, which means that

we assume that the SSIA monitors all the applications that are selected for

monitoring, which is probably an overestimation. The total administrative costs

include besides direct labour costs even general overhead costs for the SSIA (IT,

office rent etc.).