Tens of thousands of people are having financial difficulties but are not adequately helped. Municipalities are the organ where people can go in debt. But the strict criteria that municipalities are many groups outside this help.
In recent years, the number of households with (problematic) debts increases immensely . Between 2008 and 2013 doubled the number of applications for debt.
The combination of absolute growth and more stringent rejection criteria municipalities have the result that now about one-third of households with a NVVK member asking for help yet not be guided towards a debt. This equates to approximately 35,000 households approximately 70,000 people. There are also people who do because of the more stringent rejection criteria not even rely on the municipal debt. It is therefore logical that the number of households still insoluble debt relief would have liked to have (much) higher. Says a study from the University of Utrecht in collaboration with the NVVK, the association for debt and social banking.
According to State Secretary Jetta Klijnsma (Social Affairs), the microphone of the NIS, anyone a municipality knocks be considered individually. Klijnsma advises people who are not helped to go to the city council or the ombudsman.
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