The sharply rising fuel prices of the past year have had a major effect on the costs of healthcare and taxi transport. At the request of the Social Fund Mobility, Panteia has, according to the trade journal Passenger Transport Magazine calculated the consequences of this for cost developments in healthcare and taxi transport. The other cost developments of wages, depreciation, insurance and the like have not yet been included. Based on initial calculations, a higher NEA index seems inevitable if fuel prices do not fall substantially.

Panteia has calculated three scenarios on an annual basis with different fuel prices. A scenario with fuel prices remaining more or less at the current level throughout the year (plus 45%), a scenario in which fuel prices increase by 25% and a scenario in which fuel prices increase by 65%. This shows that the cost developments of fuel cause a 3,9%, 2,2% or 5,6%% increase in the NEA index respectively. Based on the average over the last 6 years, fuel prices normally account for a 0,2% increase in the NEA index.

“Clients must take into account a high NEA index this year,” says Henk van Gelderen, director of the Social Fund Mobility. “Not only because of the explosively increased fuel prices, but also because of inflation and the pressure on wages due to the increasing staff shortage. The NEA index will be announced in October. The reason for this interim announcement is that clients can take into account the consequences of the cost increase for their budgets in good time.”

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