THE NETHERLANDS: Government authorizes social assistance experiments in first five municipalities

THE NETHERLANDS: Government authorizes social assistance experiments in first five municipalities

The municipalities of Groningen, Wageningen, Tilburg, Deventer, and Ten Boer have received permission from the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment to proceed with proposed social assistance experiments. Jetta Klijnsma, CC BY 2.0 Partij van de Arbeid Jetta Klijnsma, State Secretary of Social Affairs and Employment, signed the authorization of the five municipal experiments on June 3.

Groningen and Ten Boer will be carrying out their experiments in cooperation with one another.

The two-year experiments have been designed as randomized control trials in which participants are randomly selected from a pool of current social assistance beneficiaries (with participation voluntary for […]

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