Overview Child benefit

Child benefit

• Can you get child benefit?
• • You have adopted a child
  • You look after someone else’s child like a parent
  • You have come to live/work in the Netherlands
  • Who is insured?
  • Exemption
• Child budget
• • When do child benefit and the child budget start, and when do they stop?
  • No child benefit? You may still get a child budget
  • The child budget: usually paid by the Tax Administration (Belastingdienst), sometimes by the SVB

How to claim child benefit

• How to claim child benefit

Payment of child benefit

• How much child benefit will you get?
• • Child benefit for children born before 1995
• When does the SVB pay child benefit?
• • Dutch child benefit if you live outside the Netherlands
  • Exchange rates
• If you have not received your child benefit
• If you receive non-Dutch child benefit as well
• When does the child benefit stop?

Your child's situation

• Your child is going to be 6 or 12
• How much is your child allowed to earn?
• • Find out how much money your child is allowed to earn
  • What do we mean by income
• When your child turns 16
• • What do we mean by basic qualification?
• When your child is 16 or 17
• • Your child has stopped going to school
  • Your child is unemployed or disabled for work
• When your child turns 18

Changes in family composition

• If you have further children
• Your child is leaving home (temporarily)
• • If your child has been taken into care
• Your child is living at home again
• Your contribution to your child’s support
• You and your partner are separating or getting divorced
• You are going to start living with someone
• Someone has died
• Change of address

Living or working outside the Netherlands

• You and your family are going to live outside the Netherlands
• Your child is going to live outside the Netherlands
• You are going to live and work outside the Netherlands

Reporting changes

• Changes you need to report

Rights and obligations

• Reporting changes
• If you have a complaint
• Review and Appeal
• Fines and administrative sanctions
• If the SVB's decision is late

Leaflets and forms

• Leaflets and forms

My SVB

• Claiming child benefit
• • Aanvragen vanuit het buitenland
• Reporting a change
• Checking your details
• More service with DigiD
• Questions on My SVB

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