Hundreds of Växjö residents are "forever indebted"

For 20 years or more, around 100,000 people in Sweden have been in the register of the Crown Prosecutor's Office. They are seen as eternally indebted, that is, eternity debtors.

In Växjö municipality, 514 residents were classified as indebted last year, according to the Smålandsposten which refers to the Nyhetsbyrån Siren.

– Divorce, illness and unemployment are the most common causes of long-term indebtedness, says Annina H Persson, professor of civil law at Örebro University, to Siren according to Smålandsposten.