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Hoekstra Thursday morning during the start of the interrogation.

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The minister has questions about the childcare allowance: “I tell her: as a citizen, I have noticed how complex the system is.” He talks about the many changes that he has to report when applying for the allowance. “In addition, we always receive several letters that are not consistent. So I return to her (Leijten, ed.): I hope you are right. ” Hoekstra points out that at that time he did not yet have an idea of ​​how deep the benefits problem really is and how hard it affected parents.

Rutte

Prime Minister Rutte will have to tell on Thursday afternoon about the fraud approach that became important under his cabinets. After, among other things, the Bulgarians fraud, the Rutte II cabinet appointed a special ‘ministerial committee against fraud’ in 2013. Rutte, who will be questioned on Thursday afternoon, was the chairman himself. During the interrogations of ministers and top civil servants this and last week, many of them emphasized the pressure put on from above to tackle fraud.

This got completely out of hand with the benefits affair. The tax authorities’ fraud hunt spurred and thousands of parents were, in the words of former State Secretary of Finance Menno Snel, ‘hit’ by their own government.

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