Netherlands to publish new policy on pension payments to citizens living in settlements
Source: Jerusalem Post
Dutch gov't official: Cutting 35% from Holocaust survivor's pension "should have been prevented."
The Netherlands will not cut the pension of a Dutch Holocaust survivor living in a settlement, but will soon publish new policy directives on pension payments beyond the Green Line, a spokesman for the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment clarified Monday.
The spokesman was referring to a 90-year-old woman whose sage with the Dutch pension authorities was reported on Channel 2 on Thursday night.
According to the report, the unnamed woman – who moved to Israel recently to be with her children because of the increase in anti-Semitism in Europe – received a monthly pension of about NIS 4,300.
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