Arnhem in top 5 penalties for fraud scholarship – De Gelderlander

ARNHEM – Arnhem in 2014 relatively large scholarship fraudsters cons ran the light. Often this involved students who claimed to be living away from home giving them a higher market, when in reality they were living at home. The increase is mainly because there is often checked in Arnhem, according to the Education Executive Agency (DUO).
 

This increase is the Gelderland capital, rural seen in the top five. Only in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Bergen op Zoom imposed more fines in 2014.

Fines

 In 2014 imposed a total of 49 penalties, against 30 in the previous year and 16 in 2013. In Nijmegen actually fell, the number of fines. Were still given 50 fines in 2013, in 2014, there were 29.

Increased

 The amount DUO take back consists of the teruggeëiste student and a fine to be paid by the students for their fraud when they are caught. The latter is possible the total amount recovered has increased since 2012. In 2014 was 146 482 in Arnhem, – recovered euros, against 102 404, – Euros in the previous year. That is also explained in that there are also fines imposed in 2014 for fraud in the previous year.

Control

 DUO selects students for a check based on ‘risk’. These include age, living species and the living situation. These students will receive a home visit from an inspector, who checks whether the student actually lives at the address where they are registered. If it does not, a penalty may be imposed. DUO can recover the non-resident scholarship from the moment the student at that address was registered, plus a penalty of 50 percent of the amount imposed on student finance.

Fraud decreases correct

 According DUO take fraud actually declined among students. The department believes that this is due to the stringent regulations since 2012, enabling students not only to repay the student, but also a hefty fine. It is also for DUO sufficient to prove that a student does not live at the address where they are registered. Previously, the service had to prove that the student actually lived at home.

DUO expects that fraud will decrease further with the stock market in the coming years.

See below for the development of the total amount recovered in the period 2012 – 2014, for the larger cities in the distribution area of ​​De Gelderlander

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