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"I thought this money doesn't belong to me. Something must be wrong."

Funny, she doesn't say that about her monthly "child allowance". What is that all about? That money must be coming from somewhere. I guess they pay her to have kids and no husband.

About 15 years ago, I received a notice from my bank saying that I had an overdraft because I had written a check for something like 1.9 million and I had a balance of only 1.7 million in my account. The actual balance was more in the neighborhood of $250. I never did figure that one out. By the time I received the notice and called, they had figured it out -- or so they claimed!

I guess they pay her to have kids and no husband.

Don't mean to be a stickler, but the article doesn't mention her marital status. The Swedes have a very different system from the US. Here's a link to a page from Sweden outlining the child allowance and some other support for families provided by their government.

http://social.regeringen.se/pressinfo/pdf/familj/familjepolitik_en.pdf

I wonder if it has had any positive impact on their birth rate.