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In most cases, yes. Of course it's the Dutch government's job to always note, as a technically correct statement, that "it can affect an EU citizen's right of residence" if they receive social assistance (by which they hope to discourage EU citizens from even applying); but speaking as a scholar [...]

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Friday evening, 17 April 2020 YES! The State Secretary of Justice and Security has communicated to Parliament that claiming a Tozo benefit will not have any negative consequences for holders of residence permits who are required to have a certain income-earning capacity (such as holders of [...]

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(published 28 January 2020) by Dr. Jeremy B. Bierbach In the first part of this month, now that it is a sure thing that the United Kingdom will withdraw from the European Union at midnight on 31 January 2020, I received a number of increasingly panicked phone calls from British citizens living[...]

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UPDATE (as of Jan. 9, the day after this complaint was filed): the IND did correct its website to change the reference to "sufficient income" to a reference to "sufficient resources" (the correct term of EU law), and removed the hyperlink to the page with incorrect requirements for "income". [...]

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On 27 August 2019, the immigration sector of the District Court of Amsterdam rejected an appeal filed on behalf of a British plaintiff by her attorney, Jeremy Bierbach: the plaintiff is a 28-year-old British citizen who moved to the Netherlands with her parents at a very young age and grew up there.[...]

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