EU parliamentarian Charlie Weimers (SD) has taken up the fight against the Swedish Social Insurance Agency – to get child support for his five children.
Now the decision rests with the administrative court.
– You feel very small when an entire authority acts against you in this way, he says.
The article in brief
EU parliamentarian Charlie Weimers (SD) is fighting against the Social Insurance Agency for child support for his five children.
The family is now completely outside the Swedish and Belgian welfare systems.
The outcome could be of great interest to other EU parliamentarians in the same seat, Weimers believes.
When Expressen talks to Charlie Weimers on Wednesday evening, he has been sitting in session in Brussels with hour-long negotiations.
At the same time, part of his focus right now is on an appeal process at the administrative court in Karlstad.
He is fighting against the Social Insurance Agency to get the right to child support.
– My wife and five children have now been outside the security systems for a number of months and it is an unreasonable situation for any family with children. They are outside all security systems, says Charlie Weimers.
Weimers: “Abuse of authority”
Child allowance for five children plus multi-child allowance amounts to SEK 9,240 a month, according to the Social Insurance Agency.
After being elected to parliament in 2019, he and his family, then his wife and their three children, moved to Brussels the following year. During the time in Belgium, they have had two more children.
However, Charlie Weimers has continued to be registered in Sweden, according to the regulations for EU parliamentarians.
In 2025, in two different decisions, the Social Insurance Agency has announced that he is not entitled to child support for the five children.
– I have the opportunity to hire lawyers and appeal this. Man, there are a lot of people who get run over by this kind of, abuse of authority I would call it, which is allowed to go on year after year.
The authority: “There is no right to child support”
Försäkringskassan bases the decisions on an investigation that establishes that the family is not resident in Sweden.
“Based on the information in the case, the Swedish Social Insurance Agency has made the assessment that you and the children are not considered to have your actual residence in Sweden,” writes the agency.
“You and the children are therefore not considered to be resident in Sweden and if you are not resident in Sweden there is no right to child support.”
– I mean that Försäkringskassan has acted wrongly. According to the law, my wife and my children must be insured in an EU country quite simply, he says, and believes that the family has now been locked out in limbo between the two countries.
Weimers: “A matter of principle”
– In Belgium, when they write guidelines for people like me, they state that I pay tax in Sweden. Which I do. And then Belgium thinks I should be in the systems of the country where I pay taxes, says Charlie Weimers.
– And Försäkringskassan has not contacted its Belgian counterpart to coordinate this. It is still the case that EU law actually requires this, so it is absolutely a matter of principle.
Charlie Weimers is now awaiting the administrative court’s decision, which he believes may be interesting for other parliamentarians in the same seat.
– There may well be reason for the legislator to look into this. Because the intention of the Swedish legislation cannot be that whoever takes a position of trust for Sweden is excluded from all security systems.
