Until March processed UWV 35,000 so-called bankruptcy benefits. Throughout 2015 this number was 39,000. It involves, for example the staff of the stores V & D that the trustees held an open time when the chain was already bankrupt. The UWV was for six weeks responsible for the payment of wages of employees. After that period, asked 5,400 former forces of V &. D and La Place unemployment benefits to

Especially the younger workers of the fallen department store group quickly found new work. A portion of the La Place staff could thereby started by the restart that supermarket Jumbo arranged for a part of the business.

Older

Over the elderly who came to be late on the street, the UWV is worried more. ,, The position of the elderly in the labor market remains worrying. Nearly half of all of unemployed older than fifty years, ” said UWV chairman Bruins Wednesday at the presentation of the annual report of the body.

The initiated economic recovery has become clear visible in the figures of the UWV. The number of new unemployment benefits dropped last year for example, from 605,000 to 584,000. Went there with a total of 257,000, slightly more people from unemployment back to work