Sweden's Moderate Party have claimed they will fund their election promises by changing Sweden's A-kassa unemployment benefits, cutting unemployment levels, reducing welfare fraud,…

Sweden's Moderate Party have claimed they will fund their election promises by changing Sweden's A-kassa unemployment benefits, cutting unemployment levels, reducing welfare fraud, and cutting bureaucratic waste in government agencies. "None of funding should be obtained in a way that affects hard-working people," Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson, said as she announced plans to make budget savings of 70 billion kronor. "Bureaucracy cannot cost as much as you like - it must come down to price," she added. The Moderates have proposed cutting the amount of money given to fund government agencies bureaucracy, and to set up a "waste commission", or slöserikommission to identify wasteful spending in government and government agencies, which together the party claims will save a total of 40 billion kronor. It hopes to save a further 21 billion kronor through reducing structural unemployment, reducing taxes on labour, and by making "adjustments" to A-kassa, Swedens' system of government-subsidised unemployment insurance. "We have presented election pledges worth 68 billion kronor. We have coverage for what we promise," Svantesson said. "We have given the authorities a great many tools that they have been actively working with. The tools are in place and now we can take the money home." In addition to these savings, which add up to 70 billion kronor, the party wants to moving spending from international aid to welfare and defence.