A Quarter of Long-Term Sick Receive Benefits Unjustly, Survey Shows: "Health Insurance Funds Must Explain This"
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More than one in four long-term sick people receive benefits unjustly or for too long. This is evident from two new sample surveys by the RIZIV, reported on by De Standaard and which our editorial team was also able to review. As a result, health insurance funds are once again coming under fire. Minister Vandenbroucke is strict: "They need to step up their game considerably."
A socialist minister questioning the usefulness and even the very existence of health insurance funds: that must be a unique occurrence. “If the health insurance funds do not reinvent themselves now, they have no future,” Frank Vandenbroucke declared to De Standaard. The immediate trigger for his outburst was a study showing that a quarter of the long-term sick receive their benefits unjustly. The health insurance funds are allegedly doing far t…
A sample by the RIZIV shows that about a quarter of the people who were sick at home for more than a year last year received sickness benefits unjustifiably or for too long. The newspaper De Standaard reports this on Monday.
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