Minister finds funds for program to contact people entitled to benefits

Minister finds funds for program to contact people entitled to benefits

Minister Thierry Aartsen of Work and Participation (VVD) has found funding for next year to actively reach out to people entitled to benefits. He still needs to identify a source to pay for the measure on a lasting basis, the minister said Friday in a letter to the Tweede Kamer.A planned cut to this so-called “protective service provision" was earlier reversed after criticism. The annual 30 million euros in savings was to be offset by a faster p…