Care organization suspected of fraud million PCIs

According to lawyer Arjan Boer, assisting some 70 former clients of Foundation, it is an amount of 2 to 2.5 million. The former owner denies fraud terminal and believes that his company has helped soap.

Wednesday raided the police in a house with an office in Amersfoort and a home / office on the Battutalaan in Kanaleneiland. There were records, computers and data carriers were seized.

Management
Foundation was established in 't Goy Houten and provided care and support at home for people with intellectual disabilities in the province of Utrecht. The organization owned care homes in Houten. Foundation also managed the PGB's clients.

The care agency, providing the personal budgets, suspected some years ago that indicated care was not granted. The administration would not be right. In 2014, the care office took a drastic measure to stop the PGB in the small 100 clients Foundation.

The care was transferred to Reinaerde. Foundations and some clients went to court to reverse the termination of the PGB, but were unsuccessful.

The care office then did according to legal rules to recover the PGB on the clients. It involves thousands to tens of thousands of euros per officer, says lawyer Arjan Boer. ,, These are people with an IQ between 40 and 70. Many are illiterate. Since the Foundation was its administrator, the clients have never seen the money and they know not what happened to it. After it became clear that the budgets were not spent, it was recovered from them. ''

Trust
According Boer clients have great emotional damage. ,, They have lost confidence in people who should help them. ''

The former co-owner of the Foundation denies having committed fraud and is angry with the care office and the police. ,, There's decade long delivered demonstrably good care. Fraud is no. "" He does not want to name in the paper because of privacy of his family.

The man says that some dissatisfied customers have approached the care agency and their story 'indiscriminately' was adopted. ,, I have offered all that could be explored, but there is no use of it. Of the care agency I got no answers. Only a few weeks ago I first had a conversation. ''

According to him many happy years of budget. ,, Fraudsters need to be addressed. But in this case the care office helped a professional care company wrongfully soap and budget holders put in the cold. "" He has Van Rijn Secretary sent a letter and asked for an independent investigation.

worried
MPs voiced last year's deep concern about the fact that the leadership of the PGB and the care that is paid for it, lie in one hand. There are now new, stricter rules to prevent clients have to pay personally for undelivered care.

Spokesperson Christine Rompa of Zorgkantoor Silver Cross says that the files be reviewed at this time. If it appears that the mentally disabled is nothing to blame, they do not have to run on.

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