allowance compensation is insufficient
The financial compensation for the children of victims of the benefits affair falls short. They receive a lump sum, but their debts are not paid off or waived. There is a risk that creditors will seize the compensation. This is what the children's ombudsman of Rotterdam, Amsterdam and the youth ombudsman of The Hague conclude in an opinion article for NRC.
The tax authorities pay out a so-called child scheme: an allowance for the children of victims, because “children and young people have also been duped”. Depending on their age, they receive an amount of between 2,000 and 10,000 euros.
Unlike their parents, debts such as DUO and the tax authorities are not being paid off or waived for the time being. “Those young people have been in trouble for years,” says Stans Goudsmit, Rotterdam's children's ombudsman in the newspaper. “We have to help them with that debt.” She calls for “safe money”: a “pause button” to temporarily keep creditors at a distance so that they cannot seize the allowance.
Arrangements have been set up in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague, but according to the ombudsmen, there should be such a pause button 'at the national level'.
Source: NRC
Rubric: Allowances and Health Insurance Act
Type of information: News
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