UWV lowers payment from sick Elyse: ‘People don’t see my illness, that hurts extra’

Elyse Koster (36) lives by fibromyalgia every day with pain and fatigue. After two years of sick at home, a letter crashes on her mat this month: the UWV believes that Elyse can work ‘thirty hours a week’ and lowers her benefit to 500 euros net per month. “The fact that people don’t see my illness makes it extra heavy.”

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