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The Swedish Employment Agency has begun tracking the IP addresses of unemployed people in search of benefit fraud, reports Dagens Nyheter.

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The Swedish Employment Service has found a new way to check unemployed people who receive benefits: Their IP numbers. Anyone who logs in from a foreign IP number can lose their benefits. 4,000 people have already been found this way.

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The Swedish Public Employment Service has started tracking the IP addresses of unemployed people to check that they are actually in Sweden. Approximately 4,000 people who logged in from foreign IP numbers are now at risk of losing their benefits. In order to be entitled to unemployment insurance and other forms of benefits linked to being unemployed, certain requirements are set. One of these requirements is that you must be in Sweden, in order …