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Social affairs minister worried by increase in young people suffering from burnout

There is an increase in people who are unable to work due to mental issues and are therefore applying for disability benefits, said outgoing Social Affairs Minister Karien van Gennip. These individuals are mainly “younger people with burnout.” The minister is worried about the trend. The social benefits agency, UWV, has also noticed an increase in the number of people unable to work. They saw an increase in benefits applications of 15 percent in 2023 than the year before. ....

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Cabinet considering options to stop paying childcare benefits directly to parents

A new financing system for childcare should offer parents more certainty and should remove the risk that a government office will have to demand the return of large sums of money for benefits that were paid out incorrectly. The caretaker Cabinet believes that direct payments to childcare providers is the best solution for this, instead of the current system in which parents pay for childcare themselves and receive an allowance from the government to offset the amount. ....

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Minimum wage hike on July 1 will be higher than inflation; Minister wants to do more

The minimum wage in the Netherlands will rise by a higher amount on July 1 than previously anticipated. The legal minimum wage is adjusted every six months based on inflation. When that semi-annual raise is calculated, an additional 1.2 percent will be added, the Cabinet said in a statement released on Monday. Separately, Social Affairs Minister Karien van Gennip said, "The Netherlands should not aspire to be a low-wage country." ....

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Minister Van Gennip calls for workplace talks on war between Israel and Hamas

People in the Netherlands should talk about the war between Israel and Hamas in order to "get along again afterward," says outgoing Social Affairs Minister Karien van Gennip. She calls on employers to "make this conversation possible in the workplace as well." People don't have to agree, but there should be room for conversation, she says. Few events create as much tension in society as the war in Israel and the Palestinian territories, Van Gennip acknowledges. "I think it's one of the most difficult issues". ....

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Advisors tell Cabinet not to make childcare virtually free for everyone

Two of the Cabinet's key advisory bodies have come out against the Cabinet's plan to make daycare and after school care virtually free for everyone. The plan will actually increase inequality of opportunity, and does little to ensure that more adults are able to enter the workforce, said the Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP) and the Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB). A system that mainly includes support for lower income households and also for those who are unemployed would be more helpful, they said. ....

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