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Fantastic news, self-employed people get a pension!

Today the government announced that all self-employed people will receive a pension. By the end of the year, everyone in the Netherlands, including all self-employed persons, should receive a pension. It is very important that everyone has good pension provision, so we are very pleased that this is finally being arranged for a large group of people who cannot (or cannot) do this themselves.

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A growing number of self-employed people live below the poverty line

  The percentage of self-employed people who have to survive on less than €1040 alone or €1960 as a couple with children has increased to 8.5% in 2017, source FD.nl. The fact that this percentage is increasing may also be because the number of self-employed people continues to grow steadily, already more than 1.1 million in 2017. Also in 2018 there are […]