{"id":184205,"date":"2025-12-11T13:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T12:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=184205"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:28:00","slug":"rotterdamse-student-wint-zaak-energietoeslag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2025\/12\/11\/rotterdamse-student-wint-zaak-energietoeslag\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotterdam student wins energy allowance case"},"content":{"rendered":"

The municipality of Rotterdam was not allowed to exclude students from the energy allowance for people on a low income. On appeal, a student has now been vindicated by the court.<\/p>\n

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In 2022, energy prices shot up. To ease the pain, the government gave people on a low income an energy allowance of 1,300 euros. But the government didn\u2019t need to give students that allowance, the then cabinet believed.<\/p>\n

The reasoning was, in short: although students do indeed have a low income, they usually live in small accommodations and therefore have lower energy costs than people on the minimum who, for example, live in a house with a whole family.<\/p>\n

Some students found that argument weak and still demanded an allowance from their municipalities, which had to distribute the money. It led to a stream of court cases. Sometimes students won, sometimes they lost.<\/p>\n\n\t

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