The child welfare fraud scandal (Dutch: Toeslagenaffaire, lit. 'allowances affair') is a scandal whereby approximately 26,000 parents in the Netherlands unfairly became the victim of being suspected fraudsters regarding childcare allowance claims and/or were the victim of a harsh approach by the national Tax and Customs Administration from 2013 until at least 2019 in a crackdown on fraud.[1] This was brought to public attention in September 2018. Investigators of the scandal spoke of "institutional bias",[2] violation of "the principles of the rule of law",[3] "administrative inability"[4] and called the working procedure "discriminatory".[5]