The entire Dutch government resigned as part of their accepting responsibility for failing to provide adequate oversight. Many families were harmed.
Would there be a government in the USA that would resign en-mass like this? More likely the officials would use taxpayer-funded attorneys to fight it and then claim "government immunity".
Dutch government resigns after childcare benefits scandal
The whole Dutch government collectively resigned on Friday after a scandal involving the mismanagement of childcare funds, which drove thousands of families into financial hardship.
An investigation revealed in December that tax officials wrongly accused thousands of working families of fraud and ordered them to repay childcare benefits between 2013 and 2019. The event has been described as an “unprecedented injustice” by some Dutch lawmakers.
The revelation led to the resignation on Thursday of opposition leader Lodewijk Asscher who was the minister in charge of social affairs in the previous administration.
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