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Lawyer at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency - Benefits Fraud Department

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Stockholms län, Stockholm

Previous experience is desired

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Every year, the Swedish Social Insurance Agency makes 21 million decisions that affect people's lives and the entire society. We disburse approximately 260 billion SEK each year. These are everyone's tax funds that we manage. It is a significant responsibility. Therefore, we familiarize ourselves with each case, follow laws and regulations, inform and guide, care, and show compassion. This is a job for you who want to take responsibility. Welcome to the Swedish Social Insurance Agency.

Are you a lawyer ready to make a difference? We need more lawyers who can think strategically and creatively.

The Benefits Fraud Department encompasses areas such as Crime Prevention, Control, Payment, and Repayment. In the department's operations for legal support, it includes being a support to the operations of reconsideration, litigation, and the department's other operational areas. As a departmental lawyer, you will work closely with your lawyer colleagues, and we collaborate closely to ensure high quality and competence development in a sometimes high-paced work environment.

Legal support, development, and collaboration
The departmental lawyers within the Benefits Fraud Department work with a wide range of legal issues within the aforementioned areas. The tasks include quality assurance of legal documents, supporting legal dialogues, drafting internal governing documents, responding to inquiries and referrals, handling JO referrals, developing training, acting as a sounding board for the operations, etc. The legal support also works strategically and systematically with information management related to the Administrative Procedure Act, the Public Access to Information and Secrecy Act, and GDPR.

The Swedish Social Insurance Agency is gaining more and more powers and opportunities in the fight against benefits fraud, which means that legal development work is required in the implementation of reforms. The legal support in the Benefits Fraud Department should also contribute to the work with regulatory development aimed at preventing benefits fraud.

The work entails a particular responsibility for correct and uniform application of social insurance and other applicable legislation. Based on the legal governance, you are responsible for monitoring legal developments within the Benefits Fraud Department. This includes developments in both social insurance law and other legal issues that affect the agency's ability to prevent benefits fraud. By being a close legal support to the department's employees and development activities, you contribute to good legal quality. You support managers and employees in legal matters and share your knowledge. You contribute to good collaboration both within the department and with other departments, including the agency's legal department.

As a lawyer, you handle confidential information, which places high demands on proper handling. Therefore, it is important that you, who will work with us, have a high security awareness.

This is a job for you who want to take responsibility.

We are looking for someone who

  • has a law degree or equivalent
  • is qualified as a notary or has equivalent competence, for example, similar experience from a court or agency
  • acts on their own initiative and takes responsibility for results with high quality
  • has a systematic and meticulous working method
  • can understand and analyze complex issues
  • collaborates effectively to achieve common goals.

It is advantageous if you

  • have good knowledge of administrative law and social insurance law
  • have good knowledge related to benefits fraud, recovery, economic crime, and crime prevention or similar issues
  • have good knowledge of Public Access and Secrecy, data protection issues, and other agency law.

We place great emphasis on your personal qualities.

Other
1 or more positions, permanent, full-time, with start date by agreement. A probationary period may be applicable. In accordance with the Swedish Social Insurance Agency's security guidelines, background checks will be conducted in this recruitment. For this position, Swedish citizenship is required. Tests and/or work samples will be used as part of the selection process. Place of employment: Stockholm

Would you like to know more about the Swedish Social Insurance Agency as an employer? Visit fk.se/jobbahososs

Contact persons
Manager: Charlotte Ljungström Wendel 010-112 30 45 (for questions about the position, after 3/3). HR specialist: Mikael Dewrang, 010-113 10 44, (for questions about the recruitment process). ST: Johanna Ryderling, 010-119 76 22, Saco-S: Matilda Eneqvist, 010-118 33 81, Seko: Johanna Grundström, 010-115 30 44.

Application
Welcome with your application by March 8, 2026. Please upload your degree certificates, grades, and certificates along with your application.

If you have protected personal data or no access to Bank-ID, please call the HR specialist named in the ad for assistance in submitting your application.

In everything we do, we will act based on the principle of the equal value of all people, legal certainty, and good service.

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