Under his ministry, the fines for benefit fraud increased considerably. Prominent VVD Henk Kamp is still convinced that this tightening was necessary at the time, he said on Wednesday during his interrogation before the Fraud Policy and Services Commission of Inquiry. Even though his officials said at the time that the fraud was not too bad.
‘Feelings’ convinced Kamp of a tougher approach to fraud: ‘There is a lot of undeclared work in this country’
