SP member of parliament Renske Leijten is leaving the Tweede Kamer next week after seventeen years, according to her party. "Because without her involvement, the benefits scandal would not have surfaced the way it did, and many people would still be in the dark." Niet om het vragen, maar om mensen die in… https://t.co/0sZpztA0Vp — Pieter Omtzigt July 1, 2023 …
The independent government investigation service, Rijksrecherche, is investigating whether or not top officials at the Ministry of Finance and the Dutch tax service, Belastingdienst, committed perjury in front of the parliamentary committee tasked with examining the childcare benefits scandal, according to Nieuwsuur. The decision to launch the investigation was already made back in June 2021, around the same time that …
The most galling thing about the childcare benefit scandal, says Renske Leijten, is that it happened in plain sight. Incomptence Chris van Dam, the Christian Democrat chairman of the panel, remarked at one point that he seemed to be watching the ‘world championship in management incompetence.’ Current and former ministers said they were unaware that the tax office was breaking …
