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Yes, Zantra, talking about people abusing the system.. that holds very true for a socialist country, and I think The Netherlands serves a good example.
Yesterday I saw the news, there are 1 million people in The Netherlands in working-disability (not sure about the translation) where there are total 7 million people working! The fact was that if you had a bad back, or claimed to have one, you could go into disability without questions asked and even get 100% of your wages! I think the norm was 80% and now they have cut it back to 70%. But still we have a very large influx of foreigners taking advantage of the system.
There are a lot of maroccan and turkish people in the Netherlands, which have the highest percentage of disability, and get a lot of money, without even having worked a single day in this country! So it was on the news yesterday that such foreigners will have to go for examination twice, instead of one, trying to get people to work.
Yesterday I saw the news, there are 1 million people in The Netherlands in working-disability (not sure about the translation) where there are total 7 million people working! The fact was that if you had a bad back, or claimed to have one, you could go into disability without questions asked and even get 100% of your wages! I think the norm was 80% and now they have cut it back to 70%. But still we have a very large influx of foreigners taking advantage of the system.
There are a lot of maroccan and turkish people in the Netherlands, which have the highest percentage of disability, and get a lot of money, without even having worked a single day in this country! So it was on the news yesterday that such foreigners will have to go for examination twice, instead of one, trying to get people to work.