The changes you need to report

Always report changes on time

If there is a change in your situation, you must inform us within 4 weeks. Make sure you report changes on time so that you do not get a fine.

Read the information here carefully so you know what you have to do.

Changes you do not need to report to us

We will receive the following changes from your municipality (gemeente), so you should report them directly to the gemeente. Please make sure that you do this on time.

  • A change of address within the Netherlands involving you or your family
  • The death of a family member in the Netherlands
  • A marriage or registered partnership which is concluded in the Netherlands
  • Divorce (in the Netherlands)
  • Someone gets a new nationality

Changes that you must always report to us

You or your representative must always report the following changes within 4 weeks, even if you are staying outside the Netherlands.

  • Someone aged 27 or over starts living at your address (co-resident ). You do not need to report this if this person is registered as living at your address with the gemeente.
  • A person aged 27 or over stops living at your address (co-resident). You do not have to report this to us if this person has been deregistered from your address with the gemeente
  • A person aged 27 or over living at your address has started studying or training outside the Netherlands
  • You start renting out a room or start renting a room yourself (co-resident)
  • You stop renting out a room to a person living at your address (co-resident)
  • You stop renting a room from a person living at your address (co-resident)
  • You move to another address temporarily, for example you start living with a relative or are admitted to hospital or a nursing home
  • You start living with a partner without getting married
  • You and your partner decide to separate
  • You no longer live at the same address as your partner
  • You no longer live with your partner as an unmarried couple
  • You and your spouse separate
  • You and your spouse start living together again after having lived separately for a long time
  • You and your spouse have been living separately for a long time and you start living with someone else
  • You get married or enter into a registered partnership outside the Netherlands
  • You and your spouse are getting a legal divorce outside the Netherlands
  • You or your partner passes away outside the Netherlands
  • You or your partner starts living outside the Netherlands
  • Your residence permit changes

  • You or your partner is admitted to a nursing home or care home
  • You or your partner is discharged from a nursing home or care home
  • You or your partner goes into hospital
  • You or your partner leaves hospital
  • You or your partner is placed in a sheltered living facility on the basis of a judicial order
  • You or your partner is discharged from a sheltered living facility on the basis of a judicial order

  • You start working
  • Your income from work goes up or down
  • You start receiving income from self-employment or business activities
  • Your income from self-employment or business activities goes up or down
  • You start receiving income from a new source
  • You start receiving a benefit
  • You receive payments from a personal care budget (PGB) because you supervise or care for someone
  • Your child aged 16 or 17 starts working or receiving a benefit
  • You start receiving a pension or benefit from outside the Netherlands
  • Your pension or benefit from outside the Netherlands goes up or down
  • You start receiving maintenance
  • Your maintenance goes up or down
  • You receive income at a later date for a period during which you also received AIO supplement
  • You receive a refund  or provisional refund from the Dutch Tax Administration (Belastingdienst)
  • The amount of your refund or provisional refund from the Belastingdienst has gone up or down

You do not have to report small yearly or half-yearly increases in your or your partner’s pension or benefit.

All income received by you and your partner is taken into account for the AIO supplement. Therefore, the changes listed above also apply to your partner.

Capital and assets include all movable and immovable property and money, both inside and outside the Netherlands, owned by you, your partner and, if applicable, your minor child living at home with you. For example:

  • savings
  • inheritance or gifts
  • damages and compensation for pain and suffering
  • insurance or pension payments
  • division of property after you get divorced or stop living together
  • goods of value, such as cars, art, antiques, jewellery
  • a lottery prize

To keep your AIO supplement, you cannot stay outside the Netherlands for more than 13 weeks a year. This can be for one 13-week period, or a number of shorter periods. You must inform us of the dates of your trip before you go. If you are outside the Netherlands for more than 13 weeks, your AIO supplement will stop.

Even if your stay starts in one year and ends in the next year, you cannot stay away for longer than 13 consecutive weeks.

If your partner has not yet reached their AOW pension age, they can stay outside the Netherlands for a maximum of 4 weeks a year. If they stay away for longer, the AIO supplement for your partner will stop.

  • You are going to live outside the Netherlands
  • Your partner is going to live outside the Netherlands

  • You are going to prison, a detention centre or a closed treatment facility
  • You have been ordered to go to prison, a detention centre or a closed treatment facility, but you refuse to go