“Thousands PGB claims not yet paid” – nrc.nl

"Thousands PGB claims not yet paid" – nrc.nl

Minister Martin van Rijn (L) and Minister Edith Schippers of Health in the House. Photo ANP / Martijn Beekman

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Some 24,000 claims from people with a personal budget (PGB) are not paid. That wrote Secretary Martin van Rijn last night to the House.

The Social Insurance Bank (SVB) expects to receive based on the previously processed care agreements for approximately 44,000 claims. According to the SVB are now 99 percent of claims paid within five to ten

business days. At 1 percent where that still fails, for example, are an account, so SVB can not transfer the money.

The SVB since early January responsible for processing the care contracts and money, but it can not to work. Early this month, Van Rijn offered in debate with the House apologizes for the chaos that has arisen in the payment of PGBs. Elderly, disabled and chronically ill thus arrange their care outside the mainstream institutions. Since early this year the PGB is not pre-paid to the account of the patient, but after the invoice paid to the health care provider

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