People born in the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey are denied sick benefits

Alert DateDecember 25, 2011 Country: Sweden Address: Stockholm General Type: Discrimination, Institutional discrimination, Equality/Integration Racism and discrimination phenomena: Anti-migrant/xenophobia
Groups affected / Interested in: Migrants, Ethnic minorities Key socio-economic/institutional areas: Health and social protection Hate speech/Racist Discourse Medium: Other

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The Swedish Newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN) published their review of the statistics from Sweden's Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan) which revealed that people born in the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey are denied sick benefits twice as often as applicants born in Sweden. Proof was found that in 2010 one in three Swedish-born applicants had claims denied by the agency. However, applicants from Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey had their claims denied twice as often.