Dear Jean
Lambert,
Due to our recent move from Scotland to
Belgium, it has been some time since I have written to you to give you a status
overview of actions of retired NL citizens living in other EU countries,
against the extra financial burden the NL Government has bestowed upon them for
"healthcare" without providing any services and resulting in double
payment.
The fight
is going on relentlessly, monies are withheld randomly
from pensions, or any payment that could possibly be interpreted like that.
I am also a
victim, being withheld approximately 400 euro's a month for the Dutch healthcare
system although I (was) living in
Furthermore
I am pre -pensioned through a system called FPU, of which the Health Minister
has recently stated in response to questions from members of the House that FPU
does not fall under 1408/71.
However,
the CVZ, implementing body being legislator, judge and jury on this matter,
makes everybody pay even though they know they are committing a number of
illegal actions.
People in
EU countries who are really sick are truly suffering because they may only use
the national healthcare system of the country they reside in (having been
kicked out of their private insurance by the NL Government, while at the same
time the rest of the NL people living in the NL were forced to take private
pensions) and in spite of the fact that they pay also a full fare for the NL
system which they may not use.
In a first
court case the NL judge ignored all of the allegations and only provided for a
lower charge for care if other countries do not have this system(most
of the countries). The Minister has concocted a system for this which is not in
line with European figures, and of course again hurts the pensioners.
A recent
case before the Dutch Council of State gave (after a 4 months delay, against
statutory rules) a similar result. All factual demands brought forward were
ignored, and the only result was a verdict of inadmissibility. One of the
people (a retired lawyer) is now fighting this result as a denial of judgement.
The letter in Annex refers and gives a clear depiction of the unsavoury way the
NL (and allegedly, a Mr Cornelissen, a Dutchman working at
the Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities DG) is handling this
matter.
The Dutch
pensioner's group is fighting on, having spend in excess of 350K Euro on NL
judges who subsequently shy away from the real facts. A new court case is being
prepared in
After
taking many actions and writing many letters to the various EU agencies no
results are forthcoming it seems. We get the (hopefully wrong) impression that
the EU is being manipulated by NL Government and its cronies (Cornelissen) and that actions from citizens are drowning in the EU
bureaucracy. But the EU cannot sit on its hands, it is involved, migrated
people fall under EU legislation, so why is there no response or action from
the EU if a member country is blatantly ignoring/manipulating EU rules and
regulations.
The bottom line
appears to be that the NL Government victimises a group of retired people whose
pensions can easily be manhandled, to make up for the flow of money the NL
thinks to be losing because of the free movement within the EU.
I hope my
letter and the Annex, will give you more insight in this ongoing tragedy.
Together
with over a hundred thousand NL pensioners I really do hope that the EU
parliament will stop this rot which undermines any belief in NL Government and,
if nothing happens, also in the EU institutions.
Finally,
since we are now residing in
Yours
Sincerely,
C. van
Rein,
Lid Avem