{"id":8885,"date":"2021-01-15T13:26:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T13:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3117963\/dutch-government-collapses-over-benefits-scandal"},"modified":"2021-01-15T13:26:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T13:26:17","slug":"dutch-government-collapses-over-benefits-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/15\/dutch-government-collapses-over-benefits-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch government collapses over benefits scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte\u2019s government resigned on Friday over a child benefits scandal, media reported, threatening political turmoil as the country battles the coronavirus pandemic.Thousands of parents were wrongly accused by Dutch authorities of fraudulently claiming child allowance, with many of them forced to pay back large amounts of money and ending up in financial ruin.The fact that some parents were targeted for investigation by tax officials because they had dual nationality\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3117963\/dutch-government-collapses-over-benefits-scandal\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte\u2019s government resigned on Friday over a child benefits scandal, media reported, threatening political turmoil as the country battles the coronavirus pandemic.Thousands of parents were wrongly accused by Dutch authorities &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8886,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885\/revisions\/8886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}