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AT LEAST 4,791 CHILDREN FROM 2,888 FAMILIES PLACED OUT OF HOME - MOST DID NOT RETURN
"The accumulation of government interventions—first through unjustified recovery demands and subsequently through out-of-home placements—has caused additional suffering for young people. Conversations with these young people have made it clear that the consequences are still felt on a daily basis." This is stated in the parliamentary letter sent to the House of Representatives on September 25, 2026, by State Secretary for Justice and Security Claudia van Bruggen, State Secretary for Benefits Restoration Sandra Palmen, and State Secretary for Long-term Care, Youth and Sport Mirjam Sterk.
First Meeting of Duped Entrepreneurs & Supplements/FSV/SMES (GOT) on March 25, 2026
On Wednesday, March 25, 2026, the First GOT Meeting will take place in Hooglanderveen, near Dorpshuis de Dissel. There will be a presentation about the discovery of 'The short slap in the face of the systemic fraudster' where it became clear that the SME department of the tax authorities deliberately and purposefully “phenomena” that they made fraud suspects “out of business”, “pulled the trigger”, “pulled the criminal law” through the CAF team.
Driving school owner Nora flees from the tax authorities to Germany with her children in the back seat
Driving school owner Nora Ghazoun flees to Germany with her children after major child care allowance recoveries left her homeless. For years, she worked to repay the amount of more than 60,000 euros. Wrongly. The interest group Duped Entrepreneurs Supplements/FSV/SMEs from the Stichting Herstel Onbekend Inrecht Foundation presented a petition to the House of Representatives on 17 March 2026, asking for attention: “Entrepreneurs were also wrongly seen as fraudsters”.
'Not my fault': 6-part podcast by Sander't Sas about five years of recovery
THE VICTIMS MUST REMAIN ALERT FOR LIFE On December 5, 2025, Sander't Sas, investigative journalist at AVROTROS's EenVandaag, came to see me. He is working on a podcast about 5 years of recovery surgery. After his initial...
Tens of thousands of people labeled fraudsters based on profiling and “suspected fraud”
RTL News Tens of thousands of citizens had been suffering from “fraud suspicions” for years RTL News/Pieter Klein · July 6, 2020 · Updated: July 7, 2020 In recent years, the tax authorities have had tens of thousands of people as fraudsters...
Aware policy: Service Fees for not providing files
Parents have the right to know whether and why they were considered fraudsters. In the memo, which was published in September 2025, prepared by the Technical Department of the...
“We did not listen enough and cared for our children in the families that faced major recoveries”
LONGREAD CREATED TO STUDY INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IN 2022/2023 The conclusion of the January 2023 CBS report should not have read: “The benefits affair has not increased the chance of a child protection measure”, but: “We have...