The government’s plans to stop 117,000 elderly and handicapped people claiming money to spend on personal care plans will lead to the loss of at least 4,000 jobs and fail to generate any savings, according to the government’s macro economic policy advisory group CBP.

Currently, some 130,000 people get government grants to choose their own care services, in many cases allowing them to live at home rather than in an institution.
The government plans to stop all but 13,000 people from making claims under the pgb system. Instead, people will have to ask their local council, healthcare insurer, friends and family for help.
Junior health minister Marlies Veldhuijzen van Zanten says the changes will save €900m a year without any lowering of standards.
Jobs
But the CPB says 4,000 jobs in the professional services are at risk, and 10,000 people who act as freelance home carers may also lose their income.
In addition, because the minister has said services should not get worse, there will be very little in the way of net savings as other – possibly more expensive – providers take up the slack.
GroenLinks leader Jolande Sap has called for a debate with prime minister Mark Rutte and the junior health minister to discuss the findings.
MPs from Rutte’s own party, the conservative liberal VVD, have also called for an explanation of the figures. ‘These are very serious findings,’ one told Nos radio news.