With the current government policy will take in the poverty rate in the Netherlands over the next few years, with more than a quarter of the increase, from 5.3 to 6.8 per cent of the population, and as it turns out, Thursday out of an inquiry into the poverty of the Social and Cultural Planning office (SCP) and the Centraal plan bureau (CPB) in the netherlands.
The current government policy has, in the past few years to ensure that the number of people living in extreme poverty is on the wane, but, as of 2021, ensures the unchanged policy, will make a rise. This is mainly due to the annual reduction in social security payments, which are becoming an increasing part of the bijstandsgerechtigden under the poverty line, is, according to the planbureaus.
The annual decrease in the allowance was established in 2011, the government introduced, in order to make it more attractive for people to go to work.
The annual bijstandsverlaging the time up to and including 2035. If the annual reduction in the assistance from the subsequent years will be rolled back, then the future risk of poverty for bijstandsgerechtigden for nearly half off.
Coronacrisis is not included in the study
In the study of the economic impact of the coronacrisis not taken into account, as it is now, it is not possible to assess the long-term implications of this are.
In total, the planbureaus forty and policy options, analyzes the increasing poverty of the move. Other options are to reduce poverty, after 2021, to eliminate the increase of the earned income tax credit for low-income families or for long-term, consistent investment in education, health and employability in the labour market.
In the study of poverty, it is due to the planbureaus was prepared in the run-up to the general elections in march 2021, to be the political parties is to help them build their platforms.
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