“Minimums and the elderly with a small pension will really get stuck,” fears director Arjen Vliegenthart of the budget institute Nibud, which has calculated the effects of inflation for more than a hundred example families.
Gloomy purchasing power pictures for 2022 do not come as a surprise to Vliegenthart. “But due to the sharply rising energy price, the decline in purchasing power is much stronger than we could have foreseen in September last year.” The compensation for the increased energy prices has already been incorporated in these figures.
