After the evaluation, the municipality also concludes that applying the income release has a positive effect on young people. They indicate that the extra income was needed to support themselves or to pay off debts. Working also provides more social contacts and a sense of satisfaction. “If no income exemption had been applied, it would have been unlikely that some of the young people would have started working in addition to social assistance,” Voortman writes to the city council.
Utrecht continues to deviate from the law and continues a relaxed social assistance regime for young people
