AMSTERDAM - Elderly and disabled people of their community have been told that they would get less or no domestic help by January 1, 2015, are probably still entitled to a municipal cleaning services.
The Central Appeals, the highest court in the Netherlands for conflicts between governments and citizens, has determined that municipalities the implementation of the new Social Support Act on that date should not be used as an excuse to stop domestic help or delete it. Also under the new law, the municipality responsible for cleaning help, according to the Council.
Excuse
If the church still wants to discontinue the aid, which may only after "proper investigation", evidenced by the three statements made by the Council on Wednesday. An appeal to the municipal policy freedom and responsibility of citizens for their self-sufficiency is not enough.The municipality may not plead as an excuse to cut back on the contribution of the Empire.
Legal experts had expected that the Council would speak to the churches. The professional judges were already short work of municipalities that do without objective research that can be cleaned a house in less hours.
The ruling is expected to have major implications for the many municipalities that have removed domestic help or retrenched, wrote journal Provincial Government in late February in the run-up to the verdict. The appeals against those decisions had been put on hold.
By Telegraph editorial / Photo: DIJKSTRA BV
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