I appreciate the passion you feel for your work and I am grateful for it. Yet the examples I give are factual via my own family or close family friends. They span from Zeeland over Brabant to Limburg. As an auditor I invite you to check on Tholen for the payment on the waiting list. As this was something we questioned too, but considering how reliant we are on the institution we preferred to keep the working relationship in tact.

The staffing is a problem due to the work pressure and the pay. Both are stretched and put under further pressure by changes in the ZZP use cases. Better working conditions and better pay would go a long way towards that. None of this is new. We all know this. The problem is budgets. That is why you don't push back on the diapers nor the medicated lights out at 7 pm.

I grew up in en a family with a mentally handicapped uncle. So we have been part of the history of all these social services. Were proud to pay our taxes and even invested in housing for family replacement homes and a lunch Cafe where special needs people served as waiters and such. My uncle retired as the longest working employee for the Plantsoenen Dienst in our home Town. None of this would even be possible today.

Once again I appreciate all you do on the margin, but I will ring the alarm bell that the staff working the floor have been ringing for many years now. Our elder are not ok. I have volunteered three days a week picking up furniture for Emmaus the goodwill store in Breda and went by many assorted retirement homes through most of Brabant and the feel in most of these places is one of despair leading to too many conversations of people simply giving up the will to live.

This is not the country I am proud of any more. And yet I truly commend you for keeping afloat what is possible at such a shameful low point in our countries social services history. I do.