{"id":4160,"date":"2026-04-02T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"im-66721"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"lump-sum-deferral-to-1-january-2029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/uitstel-bedrag-ineens-naar-1-januari-2029\/","title":{"rendered":"Lump sum deferral to 1 January 2029"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government is again postponing the introduction of the optional lump sum. The target effective date of 1 July 2026 will be postponed to 1 January 2029. The pension sector faces a major challenge due to the transition to the new pension system. Implementers have indicated that the simultaneous introduction of both the system transition and the lump-sum option weighs too heavily on their capacity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:smaller\" class=\"im_source\">Source: Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment | decision | 2026-0000084063 | 29-03-2026<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is again postponing the introduction of the optional lump sum. The intended effective date<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}