News item | 03-04-2025 | 17:32
State Secretary Jurgen Nobel (Participation and Integration) wants to expand the financial regulation for people who have become seriously ill by working with hazardous substances. The allowance may apply to six occupational diseases from 1 July 2025. That is now three. In addition, the State Secretary wants to increase the chance of a contribution and increase the awareness of the scheme, he writes in a letter to the Lower House. The proposals are open to internet consultation.
Since 2023, the Substitute Diseases (TSB) allowance has been offering a shorter and faster route to recognition of their occupational disease since 2023. The corridor to court is often long and complicated. The employer is then no longer always in the picture, for example because the company in question has been lifted.
The current regulation applies to three occupational diseases: lung cancer by asbestos, allergic professional asthma and CSE, also known as painter’s disease. The cabinet wants a nose (sinus) cancer due to wood fabric, silicosis (irreparable damage to the lungs due to inflammatory reactions) and lung cancer through inhalation of silica (quartz fabric). These occupational diseases are added on the basis of the estimated number of cases in the Netherlands and the availability of data to be able to assess the applications.
The cabinet also wants to increase the chance of a grant. What changes, among other things, is in principle accepting the diagnosis determined by a competent doctor. Checking underlying research is then no longer necessary. The expert panel – which assesses requests – is given more room to come to a decision based on its own expertise and experience. The scheme is also brought to the attention of medical specialists, patients and their families, among others. The improvements must lead to more applications being submitted and granted in the long term.
The one -off allowance is more than 25,000 euros.
Do you want to respond?
Up to and including Thursday 1 May 2025 you can respond to all parts of the intended expansion of the scheme and the explanation via this via Internetconsultatie.nl.