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Navigating Unemployment: Solutions and Support in the Netherlands

Explore the challenges and opportunities faced by the unemployed in the Netherlands. Learn about social exclusion, community services, welfare discussions, activation programs, and social activities. Discover key facts, figures, and practical tips for those seeking employment.

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Navigating Unemployment: Solutions and Support in the Netherlands

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  1. Unemployed and nowwhat to do? By: Klaas Bloem TymoReinsma Nicky van Brummen Manon Broekhaar

  2. Contents • Facts & Figures • Unemployednowwhat to do? • Socialexclusion • Public and community services and localprojects • Discussionsocial welfare • Activation • Social activities • Social activities (2) • Questions

  3. Facts & figures • Population in 2011 16.6 million • Average age of retirement is 63 years in the Netherlands • Unemployment • 2011 5,4% • 2012 5,9%

  4. Facts & figures (2) • Cost of social security in 2011:

  5. Unemployed, now what to do? • The unemployed registers • The unemployed person applies for a benefit (social assistance or unemployment benefit) • The unemployed person has an interview with the coach, how to resume work • The unemployed person optionally gets a re-integration process • The unemployed person resumes work

  6. Social exclusion • Definition: multiple deprivations that prevent individuals from participating fully in the economic, social, and political life of the society in which they live • The United Nations defined poverty, if people can’t provide themselves in basic needs like food and clean water • Safety-net • Minimum wage • Social assistance benefit for a single person €700 According to the CBS: • Has a family a subsistence level of €1.660 p.m. • Has a single person a subsistence level of €880 p.m.

  7. Public and community services and local projects • Training • Builders example • Entrepreneurship • Sheltered workplaces • Subsidy • Groningen@Work - 20 hours a week ‘work to work’

  8. Discussion social welfare • Economic crisis • Government lost their leading position, in September there will be new elections • The cuts are a popular topic Our opinion • Keep the social welfare • Work opportunity • Social activation

  9. Activation There is not one way to get the jobless back to work Difference between: • Frustrated people • Motivated people • Re-integration route • Pro: professional help • Cons: expensive • Independent • Pro: it’s cheap - Cons: there’s no guidance

  10. Social activities • Social security in the Netherlands • National insurance • Employee Insurance • Social cohesion • Pillarisation • Social integration

  11. Social activities (2) • Funding social security • Taxes • National insurance contributions • Improve social cohesion • In Groningen • On the countryside • Social integration on schools

  12. Are thereanyquestions?

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