A pensioner in Lidköping is being asked to pay back over 53,000 kronor after the Pension Agency discovered that it had miscalculated the housing supplement for nearly a decade. The case is an example of the authority’s extensive ÅKA initiative, where tens of thousands of elderly people are now being scrutinized to reclaim previously paid benefits – even when the mistakes appear to be due to the agency’s own calculations.

A pensioner in Lidköping has received a repayment demand of just over 53,000 kronor after the Pension Agency conducted a new calculation of the individual’s right to a housing supplement. According to the agency, the supplement was too high during the period from November 2015 to June 2025. This is reported by Nya Lidköpings-Tidningen.

It was only after a new review that it was discovered that income from occupational pension and private pension had not been properly included in the calculation. The consequence was that the pensioner is considered to have received too much money over almost ten years.

The entire sum to be repaid within a month

Although this concerns an incorrect payment that stretches over almost a decade, the Pension Agency is demanding that the whole amount be paid back in a short period. The repayment demand was sent out on November 15, 2025, and payment must be made no later than December 15 – just one month later.

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If the debt is not settled, the case moves on to the Social Insurance Agency for collection. After that, the Enforcement Authority may be involved and the pensioner could be subject to collection, home seizures, and legal consequences.

Example of the agency’s ÅKA initiative

The case is far from unique. It is part of the Pension Agency’s national project ÅKA – Reclaim, Intensified Effort, and Processing – which started in 2025. The initiative aims to handle around 60,000 repayment cases across the country, most of which concern housing supplements for pensioners.

The project has been criticized for largely targeting elderly people who often lack the means to check complicated calculations themselves or to detect errors in agency decisions made many years ago.

Questions of responsibility when the agency miscalculates

In this case, it is clear that the repayment demand arose only after the Pension Agency carried out a new and more accurate calculation of the pensioner’s income. This raises questions about who really bears the responsibility when incorrect payments continue for such a long period without being detected.

Even though it is the agency’s review of its own past calculation that has led to the discovery, the entire repayment demand is now directed at the pensioner. For the individual, this means that money paid out and used over nearly ten years is suddenly regarded as a debt to be repaid immediately.

Tens of thousands of pensioners may be affected

The ÅKA project covers tens of thousands of cases nationwide. For many pensioners, this concerns housing supplements granted based on information the agency itself had access to and used as the basis for previous decisions.

Now that old decisions are being reviewed again, more pensioners risk facing repayment demands of tens of thousands of kronor – sometimes for circumstances dating back many years. This case shows how far-reaching the consequences can be when the agency retrospectively changes its own calculations and at the same time demands that the individual pensioner bear the full cost.