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Debt counseling in The Netherlands

Debt counseling in The Netherlands. Albert Luten November 26, 2010. National Institute for Budgetinformation. Consumers information Website Leaflets, software Call center Press Professionals Courses Software. Debt regulation. Amicable debt settlement Social banks Social services

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Debt counseling in The Netherlands

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  1. Debt counseling in The Netherlands Albert Luten November 26, 2010

  2. National Institute forBudgetinformation • Consumers information • Website • Leaflets, software • Call center • Press • Professionals • Courses • Software

  3. Debt regulation • Amicable debt settlement • Social banks • Social services • Others, .. • Legal debt settlement • Court • Since 1999 > After three years a fresh start

  4. Repayment capacity • Early nineties: 3 methods • Detailed budget method • Global budget method • ‘Legal method’ > Unification was needed!

  5. 1999 Legal phase • All courts used the legal method • But many differences in interpretation • Sometimes large differences in outcomes

  6. Recofa Commission • Develop one method / interpretation of the legal method • Simply: it must work for 95% of the cases • Develop software • Maintain the method

  7. Law art. 475 d • Not seizable income: • 90% of the social minimum • Correction for rent • Correction for health insurance premium • Plus a ‘nominal amount’

  8. Social minimum • In The Netherlands we have one social minimum: • 1300 euro per month for a couple. • 90% for lone parents • 70% for singles • Else: you have to make one: • Focusgroups (FBU, Un. of York) • Reference budgets • Other method: budget method

  9. Rent correction Rent 700 Rent in social minimum 220 – Rent subsidy 350 – Correction for rent: 130 - with a maximum - service costs: partly

  10. Housing costs • High rent: move or an extra (temporary) correction • Own house: sell it or same correction as rented house • Boarding money, children with an income

  11. Correction health insurance Total premium 200 In social minimum 45 - Healthsubsidy 120 - Correction 35 Own risk: payed from the estate when used

  12. Legal part Total net income 1500 90% social minimum 1170 Corr. rent 130 Corr. health ins. 35 Total corrections > 1335 Repayment capacity 165

  13. Nominal part • The judge is free to decide upon this • The commission made rules for this part, so everybody is treated ‘equal’ • Specific points: individual solution

  14. Corrections nominal part • All costs that cannot be paid by the social minimum plus legal corrections: - Corrections for subsidies - Corrections for income earning costs - Other costs

  15. Corrections for subsidies Households with a minimum income have higher subsidies: correction for households in debt advice that are also on a minimum level, but with a higher taxable income Child allowance: say 120 at minimum, 80 with income 1500 Correction: 40

  16. Corrections income earning costs • Standard 5% for people with work (stimulus) • Travel costs • Costs of childcare • Car: depends • Study costs: depends

  17. Other costs • Costs of a handicap • To visit a hospital • ... Not: • Donations to f.e. church • Transfers abroad

  18. Nominal part • 5% extra for workers • Extra rent costs • Car • Childcare • Child allowance • Study costs • Alimony • Handicap • Other

  19. Income • Only incomes that can be attached: wages, social benefits, tips, pensions, et cetera • Not: child allowance, subsidies, orphan benefit

  20. E N D • www.nibud.nl • European Consumer Debt Network: ECDN http://www.asb-gmbh.at/ecdn/index.php www.referencebudgets.eu

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