Thursday, July 12, 2012

Dissability in the Netherlands only for high earners

When you become ill/dissabled you can apply for dissability. Which is called WIA.

In general it is like this.
After two years of being sick you have to be checked by a insurance doctor and when he / she thinks you have possibilities to work you have an appointment with a job expert who decides how much dissability you get.

Why this story? Because it has nothing to do with your ability to work it has everything to do with your income.

The law states it looks at your possibility to work but it does not. It looks at the percentage income you would loose considering your dissability.

Two people with exactly the same problems can have two seperate decisions in the end. If one earns a topincome and the other average. The expert will say they could for example still work in the factory.

The topincome man will lose 80% income and the average man will lose 25%. They are both able to work in the same factory but due to his high income on his former job the topincome man will have a dissability of 80-100% while the average income guy has less than 25% loss of income and to have any dissability it should be at least 35%.

This law is invented to get you to work what you are able to while in fact the topincomes have a big chance to get dissability while mr. Average gets nothing.

This is really bothering me,how to be heard?