Live-out students face tougher checks
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Add as a favourite source on Google Add DutchNews as a favourite source on GoogleStudents who claim to live away from home face spot checks on their new addresses from May as part of a crack down on fraud, the education ministry said on Friday.
Students in Amsterdam will be targeted first, followed by Rotterdam, The Hague and Twente.
Students who live with their parents get a basic grant of €95 but students who live away get €266. Some 270,000 hbo college and university students claim a live-out grant.
Earlier research showed some 40,000 students are wrongly claiming the bigger amount, defrauding the taxpayer of between €30m and €80m a year.
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