It concerns debts that parents have built up with the municipality. Many parents could no longer pay their bills such as city taxes because they had to pay back unjustifiably high amounts of childcare allowance. With the remission, The Hague is anticipating a law that should regulate this as of 1 January 2022.
At the beginning of September it was announced that at least a hundred municipalities are canceling municipal debts of victims of the allowance affair. In May, the municipality of Rotterdam already announced that it would pay the debts of duped parents.
The Hague alderman Arjen Kapteijns of Social Affairs says that the municipality wants to support the affected parents. “Thousands of families have been wrongly labeled as fraudsters for years. By canceling the debts they have with the municipality as a result of the allowance affair, we provide peace of mind and alleviate the problems that these people have unjustifiably had to endure in recent years,” he says.
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It concerns debts that parents have built up with the municipality. Many parents could no longer pay their bills such as city taxes because they had to pay back unjustifiably high amounts of childcare allowance. With the remission, The Hague is anticipating a law that should regulate this as of 1 January 2022.
At the beginning of September it was announced that at least a hundred municipalities are canceling municipal debts of victims of the allowance affair. In May, the municipality of Rotterdam already announced that it would pay the debts of duped parents.
The Hague alderman Arjen Kapteijns of Social Affairs says that the municipality wants to support the affected parents. “Thousands of families have been wrongly labeled as fraudsters for years. By canceling the debts they have with the municipality as a result of the allowance affair, we provide peace of mind and alleviate the problems that these people have unjustifiably had to endure in recent years,” he says.
Also read: ‘hostile atmosphere’ makes reporting and preventing abuses to the tax authorities very difficult
It concerns debts that parents have built up with the municipality. Many parents could no longer pay their bills such as city taxes because they had to pay back unjustifiably high amounts of childcare allowance. With the remission, The Hague is anticipating a law that should regulate this as of 1 January 2022.
At the beginning of September it was announced that at least a hundred municipalities are canceling municipal debts of victims of the allowance affair. In May, the municipality of Rotterdam already announced that it would pay the debts of duped parents.
The Hague alderman Arjen Kapteijns of Social Affairs says that the municipality wants to support the affected parents. “Thousands of families have been wrongly labeled as fraudsters for years. By canceling the debts they have with the municipality as a result of the allowance affair, we provide peace of mind and alleviate the problems that these people have unjustifiably had to endure in recent years,” he says.
Also read: ‘hostile atmosphere’ makes reporting and preventing abuses to the tax authorities very difficult
It concerns debts that parents have built up with the municipality. Many parents could no longer pay their bills such as city taxes because they had to pay back unjustifiably high amounts of childcare allowance. With the remission, The Hague is anticipating a law that should regulate this as of 1 January 2022.
At the beginning of September it was announced that at least a hundred municipalities are canceling municipal debts of victims of the allowance affair. In May, the municipality of Rotterdam already announced that it would pay the debts of duped parents.
The Hague alderman Arjen Kapteijns of Social Affairs says that the municipality wants to support the affected parents. “Thousands of families have been wrongly labeled as fraudsters for years. By canceling the debts they have with the municipality as a result of the allowance affair, we provide peace of mind and alleviate the problems that these people have unjustifiably had to endure in recent years,” he says.
Also read: ‘hostile atmosphere’ makes reporting and preventing abuses to the tax authorities very difficult