lone self-employed also have more time to decide on participation in a pension fund © anp.
lone self-employed with an average pension do not have to eat their pension if they rely on the assistance. This is contained in a bill of Klijnsma State Secretary for Social Affairs, which the Cabinet agreed today.
The protection applies to pension assets of € 250,000 and also applies to people who do not participate in a pension fund and have arranged their retirement themselves.
This is the result of a bill by State Klijnsma Social Affairs Ministers Friday where they disagree. The law should protect the accrued pension of self-employed for the power button on welfare. Just like that now also applies to employees. Municipalities late last year asked to be reckoned with in 2015 already. This is 41 million made available.
More time
lone self-employed also have more time to decide on participation in a pension fund. The period is extended from three to nine months. The Act that as freelancers assistance have a portion of their income from work is not settled with their benefit is. Municipalities may now only grant that exception for six consecutive months. But to encourage temporary and part-time work from the assistance that six months may be cut in the new law.
The law now goes for advice to the Council of State and may – if adopted by the Senate and House – January 1 go. The Netherlands has over 800,000 self-employed.
Big Profits
Earlier attracted mainly D66 the alarm about the risk that freelancers must first retirement ‘eat ‘if they end up on welfare. D66 MP Steven van Weyenberg says the bill of Klijnsma big profit.
,, These freelancers will also encourage them to save more for their retirement because of the risk that they have to eat now is not it. “” D66 demanded by pension negotiations with the government in November 2013 all guarantees for the retirement money of freelancers.
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