If you’ve recently learned that you’re expecting, congratulations! If this is your first rodeo and you’ve got a disability that you’re worried could affect your ability to parent, there are plenty of things you can do to ease your transition to parenthood. Home Preparation Chances are that if you’ve lived with a disability for a […]
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Apps to download when you live in Sweden
We live in day and age powered by technology, but often it is not used to its full potential. While travel is often associated with “unplugging”, a big move can be made so much easier with the help of a few apps. I will even go so far as to say: cell phones are the […]
Medborgarkontor – citizens advice bureau
Medborgarkontor is a co-locating service where citizens can turn to with questions concerning life in the municipality.
ABF Stockholm
ABF Stockholm is a non-profit organisation who offer Swedish courses, social orientation courses and counselling for newcomers.
The Swedish pension system is hard on newcomers
The Swedish pension system is hard on newcomers. The requirement to obtain the maximum guaranteed pension (garantipension) is with some exception, that the person has lived in Sweden for 40 years. This means that many foreign-born Swedes are left out of the basic protection. About 225 000 pensioners live below the EU poverty threshold, according […]
