[Cthulhu_]

On top of these fines they have to compensate and pay damages to everyone involved though, they've reserved €1.3 billion for that. The issue affected 30.000 parents, 70.000 children; there were 8000 divorces.

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toeslagenaffaire has a lot of information, but it's in Dutch; the English version of this article isn't as fleshed out.

[jacquesm]

Quite a lot of the damage is irreparable through monetary compensation. Children placed in institutions or with adoptive families because their parents ended up being destitute for instance. Suicides.

[candiodari]

You can compensate lost years. A lot year costs the victim that year in

1) support costs for themselves (if they can't go back to the parents, this is of course a lot more than it would have been had there never been an intervention)

2) (if applicable) education costs (including the need to go for more expensive education due to age. For example, going for secondary education when already 20 years old costs a lot more than doing it at 15)

3) lost pay. This is years that they cannot work and earn, and counterintuitively this is the pay of the LAST years they're working

Of course CPS really prefers offloading all the usually massive costs of their "help" onto the children.