Municipalities hold millions on care budget – Telegraaf.nl

Nine in ten municipalities kept money in day care, guidance and support. And six in ten municipalities had last year even money on the shelf are for domestic help.

The survey took almost a third of the municipalities, 126 of the 390, with. More than half of them had the post WMO (Social Support Act) even a surplus of 15 percent or more. For all municipalities, that would amount to an amount of at least 310 million euros.

For this year expects more than half of the municipalities back surpluses in the WMO -expenditure. Be afraid municipalities (four in ten) that they have lost more money for youth than was budgeted.

The municipalities thinking about keeping this year’s money, because they have on the various posts last year cut and were stricter with purchases.

bankrupt home care

in particular, the domestic worker was recently in the spotlight, after the bankruptcy of home care giant TSN

and a record number of lawsuits over the disappearance or shrinkage of the help. In this post municipalities were a hefty cut of 32 percent, and yet they take this money, reports the NIS . So write down six out of ten municipalities a surplus in one quarter was that even more than 15 percent

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