The development plan is the signed appendix to the benefit decision notice in which the administrative agency defines the client's path towards employment and in which the rights and obligations of both parties to ensure the successful completion of the plan are laid down. The development plan is given shape in accordancy with the resources to be put in. The administrative agency is authorized to draw up this plan, or to issue instructions for it o be drawn up, in consultation with the client, on grounds of legislation in a formal sense or a municipal ordinance. The development plan as a tool was included in the Dutch National Assistance Act (Abw), the Dutch Act on Income Provisions for Older and Partially Disabled Unemployed Persons (IOAW) and the Dutch Act on Income Provisions for Older and Partially Disabled Formerly Self-employed Persons (IOAZ) in 1996 and in the Dutch Jobseekers Employment Act (WIW) in 1998. In 2002 the tool was also included in the employee benefit schemes with the introduction of the Dutch Act on the Structure of the Implementation of the Work and Income Act (SUWI Act). The purpose of this research is to answer the question whether this tool should be used in reintegration projects and why the development plan is the right tool. The research question reads: Is the development plan a suitable tool for the reintegration of benefits recipients and unemployed persons not entitled to a benefit?