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No response to hike in errors at Employee Insurance Agency
The control and management system in place at the Employee Insurance Agency (UWV) for benefit payments made under the Work and ...
Read moreIncapacity benefit warnings not picked up
Tens of thousands of incapacity (WIA) benefit payments were probably miscalculated between 2020 and 2024 but the Employee ...
Read moreAudit of crisis measures in response to high energy prices
The Netherlands Court of Audit is investigating the effect in the Netherlands of various energy crisis measures the government ...
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No control of failing youth protection
The Dutch government transferred responsibility for youth protection to municipalities in 2015. Its aim was to reduce the overall ...
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Hidden costs of the National Energy Retrofit Fund
The National Energy Retrofit Fund (ERF) is a scheme to make homes sustainable. By the end of 2021, the fund (initially called the ...
Read morePart of government expenditure on Covid-19 support deferred until 2021
The government is expected to spend a total of €31.4 billion in 2020 on mitigating the consequences of the coronavirus crisis. ...
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