Up to 50,000 people affected by UWV benefit miscalculations, FNV wants emergency fund

Between 25,000 and 50,000 people have been affected by mistakes made by Dutch benefits agency UWV with WIA benefits. "A considerable number," says Minister Eddy van Hijum (Social Affairs and Employment). "It is especially for those people themselves that it is extremely unpleasant and annoying that we have ended up in this situation, and we have to consider a recovery operation of this magnitude."