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Less cash to help the jobless find work

Thursday 11 March 2010

The state-run job centre organisation UWV is almost out of money to spend on projects to get the unemployed back into work, the Volkskrant reports on Thursday.

The UWV had a budget of €126m this year, unchanged from 2009. 'Last year there was enough money because the economic crisis had just broken out,' a spokesman told the paper. 'But the projects started last year are pressuring this year's budget.'

Over 320,000 people are now claiming unemployment benefit in the Netherlands.

The UWV is cutting back on its contracts with external reintegration bureaus in order to balance its books, the paper says.

MPs have called for an explanation from social affairs minister Piet Hein Donner.

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Is there any agency who can audit UWV for their spending on the "unemployed back to work". They did nothing then to disgrace them and shunted them out of their offices. Except for paying to a few subsidery NGOs, who also did the same. The unemployed were on their own and are on their own. UWV is only checking once a week, that they have jobs or not. 126 million of spending just for checking unemployed is a waste of money. Better close UWV and pay the same amount to the professional colleges for awarding scholarships to those who seek training and education.

By jerry | March 15, 2010 12:13 AM