9 July 2024, 23:16 by Karzal

Drama series about the benefits affair can be seen this autumn on BNNVARA

BNNVARA komt binnenkort met de driedelige dramaserie De Toeslagenaffaire, geregisseerd door Joram Lürsen.

Three years ago, BNNVARA announced that a television series about the benefits affair was in the making and now it has finally been announced when it will be shown. We'll have to be patient for a few more months.

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At the beginning of 2021, the Rutte III cabinet resigned due to the now infamous benefits affair. Tens of thousands of parents were wrongly suspected of fraud as a result of which they had to repay their childcare allowance. Several of these victims even ended up in debt as a result.

Many creative minds thought this was enough fodder for a film - which will be shown in cinemas in September - and therefore also for a television series.

The cast and the precise content of the series will soon be announced by BNNVARA, but it is already clear in which period we can expect the series. The Supplementary Affair can be seen on NPO 1 in the autumn.

The director of the project is Joram Lürsen, who previously made the film Banker of the Resistance and the series Day & Night.

De Toeslagenaffaire will premiere at the Netherlands Film Festival (NFF) at the end of September. It is not yet known exactly when the three-part series will be broadcast on television.

Comments (2)

BlackBiker • 9 July 2024, 18:07

"Several of these victims even ended up in debt as a result." For some, the consequences were even worse than this. But despite the fact that what has happened here and done by officials is of course a gross scandal, this is not the kind of television that I am personally looking forward to. But there will certainly be a target group for it.

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JanWillemK • 10 July 2024, 10:20

It seems to me that such a series will also feel like a slap in the face to the victims. BNNVARA will certainly handle it professionally, but the whole benefits affair is still going on, where normal people have gotten enormous debts and in some cases have even wrongly had to give up their child(ren), among other things. It may even take years before the victims get their money back.

Then turn it into an extensive docuseries where you interview the people involved and put the failure of our politicians and civil servants under a magnifying glass.
And then also make this series with our tax dollars... No, I don't think anyone is looking forward to this.

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