(Parliamentary) Committee on Social Insurance
( sv, socialförsäkringsutskottet) (SfU) is a
parliamentary committee
A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly. A committee is not itself considered to be a form of assembly. Usually, the assembly sends matters into a committee as a way to explore them more ...
in the Swedish
Riksdag
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. The committee's areas of responsibility concern
health insurance
Health insurance or medical insurance (also known as medical aid in South Africa) is a type of insurance that covers the whole or a part of the risk of a person incurring medical expenses. As with other types of insurance, risk is shared among ma ...
,
pensions
A pension (, from Latin ''pensiō'', "payment") is a fund into which a sum of money is added during an employee's employment years and from which payments are drawn to support the person's retirement from work in the form of periodic payments ...
, policies on families,
asylum
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Types of asylum
* Asylum (antiquity), places of refuge in ancient Greece and Rome
* Benevolent Asylum, a 19th-century Australian institution for housing the destitute
* Cities of Refuge, places of refuge in ancient Judea
...
,
human migration
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, integration policies for newly arrived migrants, along with
Swedish citizenship
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.
The Speaker of the committee is "to be elected" from the
Moderate Party
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and the vice-Speaker is
Ida Gabrielsson
Ida Gabrielsson (born 1981) is a Swedish politician. Since September 2018, she serves as Member of the Riksdag. She was again elected as Member of the Riksdag in September 2022. She represents the constituency of Stockholm Municipality. She repre ...
from the
Left Party.
List of speakers for the committee
List of vice-speakers for the committee
References
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External links
Riksdag - Socialförsäkringsutskottet(Social Insurance Committee)
Committees of the Riksdag