26 dec 2023 om 05:01 Household income is no longer a good indicator of poverty. Salaries and allowances increased for many households last year. Yet aid organizations saw more and more people knocking because they could no longer make ends meet. This year, the National Children’s Aid Fund received an average of 120 requests for … Read more
Oct 2, 2023 at 12:04 PM Update: an hour ago The Energy Cost Allowance (TEK) can be applied for for the last time today. Many companies that consume large amounts of gas and electricity quickly apply for compensation. Last week eight times more applications were received than in previous weeks. Last week, approximately nineteen hundred … Read more
By our economics editors Jun 30, 2023 at 06:39 Update: an hour ago The prices of goods and services are on average 5.7 percent higher this month than in the same month last year. This means inflation is lower than last month, when it was 6.1 percent. This is evident from figures from Statistics Netherlands … Read more
Over the past two years, the Netherlands has spent more on importing goods and services from abroad. This was mainly due to high energy prices. In two years, the loss amounted to almost 2 percent of national income, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) calculated. This was because the Netherlands had to obtain a lot of energy … Read more
16 mei 2023 om 15:34Update: 20 minuten geleden With more and more energy suppliers you can conclude long-term energy contracts again. On Monday, Vattenfall announced that it would again offer three-year contracts. On Tuesday, Budget Energie and Eneco followed suit. Essent will also follow soon. Smaller energy suppliers such as Sepa Green and Innova Energie … Read more
02 mei 2023 om 06:59Update: 18 minuten geleden Life in the Netherlands has become an average of 5.2 percent more expensive in April than one year previously. This was mainly because energy prices fell less sharply last month than in March. Grocery prices also rose again, albeit less sharply than in March. This is reported … Read more
The Red Cross has opened giro number 5125 for food aid in the Netherlands. The organization notices that the demand for food aid is increasing and wants twice as many people to receive this aid. “From 20,000 people reached in 2022 to a minimum of 40,000 in 2023.” The organization helps people by, among other … Read more
15 mrt 2023 om 00:01 Last year, the Netherlands emitted 9 percent fewer greenhouse gases than in 2021. This is mainly due to the energy crisis, which caused citizens and companies to use less natural gas. Aviation emissions did rise due to growing passenger numbers. Last year, CO2 emissions were just under 32 percent lower … Read more
05 mrt 2023 om 05:00 Holidays, insurance, groceries, the hospitality industry. You can’t think of it so crazy or it will be more expensive. Remarkably enough, the driver of the current wave of inflation – energy – is the only thing that is currently getting cheaper. How is that possible? On Thursday it appeared that … Read more
19 feb 2023 om 05:01 Many large companies made billions in profits last year. At the same time, more and more households are living in poverty due to higher prices. The companies were therefore criticized from various quarters, but can you blame them for making a lot of profit? Anyone who looked at the annual … Read more