– 12/08/14, 09:00
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About 40,000 single parents with a debt to the tax authorities from next month no more cuts on the child budget, which Trouw wrote Saturday. That promise the Tax has done to the National Ombudsman.
As of January the Tax plays a greater role the finances of people with low incomes: the portion of income support provided for the children is no longer provided by the municipality, but by the tax authorities. The tax would therefore entail a higher amount. Aid workers fear that so more people get into debt.
Those debts arise as people cut back on their payments, making them less than the legal minimum subsistence level (90 percent of assistance) bags, it says in the report “Tax, source of poverty?”, published yesterday.
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The Tax settles supplements, such as people have received too much. “But that money just goes on,” said social counselor Moerman André, who drafted the report.
The Administration keeps so far no account of the seizure-free rate, to guarantee subsistence. Other creditors are required to do so.
“The Tax and rolled over each debt settlement back,” observes Carola Schouten, Member of Parliament for the Christian Union. “We have agreed a minimum in the Netherlands and the government is the first who must keep it. But she does not.”
According to Schouten be problems of people with debts only increases “if you’re going to recover from people who have nothing. ” “It has long been known, but the government is not doing enough about it.” Schouten is Secretary Jetta Klijnsma of Social Affairs again today require a solution.
Klijnsma the Chamber for the Christmas recess promised a letter on the issue, but before she has with other ministers (of Finance and Economic Affairs) to see to find common ground. “But the political will,” said Schouten.
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