Tip of the day!: sjoemel with spitsmijden and earn money

Posted on 13-04-2016 at 8:42 by MauritsH – 26 Comments”

Thousands of sjoemelaars don’t actually have a cent to pay it back.

Peak avoidance and fraud go hand in hand, that’s not news. What is spitsmijden? In brief, it boils down to is that motorists have a financial spring in the butt if they solemnly promise not to in the morning and evening rush hour the local traffic jams will worsen, precisely by at other times to the store to commuters. This involves a select number of routes which avoid congestion so against the walls up klatste.

The numbers that were queried by AD suggests, however, that there is a rather large scale will be cheated with this construction. A total of 80,000 participants is at 4.200 persons the fee/subsidy stopped. According to the newspaper goes mostly to people who have a change in their situation (relocation, zwangerschapsgeneuzel, another job) had not passed. And the whole point of spitsmijden, for a fee, of course, is that you are demonstrably not in the polonaise have been on that one track.

These people are so out of the system to be deleted, but need to be incorrectly received fees to pay back. Since the subsidy on some of the routes climbed to 140 euros per month, we can imagine that the fraudsters have been nice here to have earned.

Reaction from The Hague and the performers

Mp Duco Hoogland (PvdA) wants the fraud is punished. Sounds good, though experience demonstrates that powertaal as “hard to tackle” in Hague circles today, a completely hollowed-out and especially the populist cry of politicians who are powerless to change things.

The performers themselves find that there is no cheating, the majority of the participants in such projects involves sticks to the rules. The money back is, witness the following quote in the mouth of the Province of Gelderland, is simply too much effort:

If you look at what it costs to relatively low amounts in return, which is expected to be higher than the sums that are paid out. You don’t even know for sure whether it was intentionally cheated and moreover, you need a whole legal circus for rigging to get money back.

All in all, each drive there will be less people in the rush hour, so that’s a plus. In addition, there is a grand total of one project, which at present, it is excluded that there is cheating. It comes to the project on the A2 motorway between Best and Boxtel, with the boastful title “Win file”. There was an app for motorists to check and it worked ok, I guess. But as a Member of parliament Hoogland rightly observes: you can pokkie with GPS, of course, also just in a different car and later the fee is yours. Tricky matter.

Thanks to Arno for the tip! Photo: @b088y, via Autojunk.