Unemployment benefit creates budget shortfall
Wednesday 24 August 2011
Social affairs minister Henk Kamp will have to find an extra €250m in his budget because unemployment is set to rise, according to a report by broadcaster RTLZ and confirmed by insiders.
The government is currently working on the budget for 2012 with the think-tank CPB providing the latest forecast for the economy, unemployment and purchasing power. With the debt crisis in Europe, economic prospects are uncertain, it says.
Last week the central statistics office CBS said unemployment had risen in July and on Monday evening Kamp warned that people would begin to feel a drop in purchasing power in 2012.
How the minister will make up the shortfall is not yet known.
The government will present its 2012 budget on September 15.
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