Payment of child benefit

Your child benefit will be paid on the following dates:

• 2 January 2025 (payment for the 4th quarter of 2024)
• 1 April 2025 (payment for the 1st quarter of 2025)
• 1 July 2025 (payment for the 2nd quarter of 2025)
• 1 October 2025 (payment for the 3rd quarter of 2025)

This depends on your bank. Other people may therefore receive their child benefit earlier than you. We would ask you to wait and check your account later in the day.

See the table on the page ‘Child benefit amounts’.

The date of the first payment depends on when your child was born.

Child benefit is always paid after the end of the quarter concerned. The payment you have just received is your last child benefit payment for your child.

Your child benefit will go up depending on the situation on the first day of a quarter. On 1 January 2025, your child had not yet turned 6 or 12. This means you are still entitled to the old amount for the 4th quarter of 2024. Your child benefit will be increased as from the 2nd quarter of 2025. As child benefit is always paid after the end of the quarter, you will receive the new amount for the first time at the beginning of July 2025.

If you have an account with a bank outside the Netherlands, it may take longer for you to receive your benefit payments in your account. This will depend on your bank and the country where you live.

Costs for transferring payments to bank accounts outside the Netherlands

We remit your child benefit in euros to Citibank. Citibank then transfers the money to your bank. The transfer costs can be up to €0.48 per payment, depending on the country where you live.

You may have to pay extra costs to your own bank. The amount you have to pay depends on your bank. We have no control over this.