Child benefit at twice the basic rate for a child living at home who needs extensive care

This child benefit rate is for parents with a child living at home who needs extensive care . The extra care parents have to provide can be expensive. Child benefit at twice the basic rate gives them some financial support.

If a doctor, specialist or treatment provider has established that your child needs a lot of extra care, for example because of an illness, disorder, condition or disability, you can qualify for child benefit at twice the basic rate. However, your child must also meet all of the following conditions:

  • your child is aged 3 to 17
  • your child lives at home (sleeps at home at least 4 nights a week)
  • Your child has a positive Wlz care indication from the Care Needs Assessment Centre (CIZ )

When your child turns 18, the child benefit will stop. The same applies to child benefit at twice the basic rate.

If the Care Needs Assessment Centre (CIZ ) gave your child a Wlz care indication on or after 1 July 2024, and you have given the CIZ permission to share your details with us, you do not have to do anything else. We will send you a letter automatically. If your child meets the qualifying conditions, you will automatically be awarded child benefit at twice the basic rate. The qualifying conditions are:

  • your child is aged 3 to 17
  • your child lives at home (sleeps at home at least 4 nights a week)

If you have not given the CIZ permission to share the details of your child’s Wlz care indication with us, you will not automatically qualify for child benefit at twice the basic rate. If you would still like to qualify for child benefit at twice the basic rate, you will have to submit a claim to us.

We will then ask the CIZ to assess whether your child needs extensive care. The CIZ may already have medical information on your child. On the claim form, we will ask you to grant the CIZ permission to use this information. This way, your claim will be processed more quickly.

If the Care Needs Assessment Centre (CIZ ) gave your child a Wlz care indication before 1 July 2024, and your child meets the following conditions:

  • your child is aged 3 to 17
  • your child lives at home (sleeps at home at least 4 nights a week)

In that case, you can qualify for child benefit at twice the basic rate, but you will have to submit a claim to us.

If your child meets the qualifying conditions, you can apply for child benefit at twice the basic rate. You can find out if your child meets the qualifying conditions by answering the questions further down on this page.

The SVB is not able to assess whether your child needs extensive care. We will therefore ask the Care Needs Assessment Centre (CIZ ) to do this on our behalf. When the CIZ has completed its assessment, it will give us its opinion.

The CIZ needs information from you

The CIZ needs information from you in order to establish whether your child needs extensive care. ‘Extensive care’ means that a child needs considerable extra care due to an illness or condition, which also makes your job as a parent much more difficult. It has also been diagnosed by a doctor, specialist or treatment provider. The CIZ will send you a form asking for details of your child’s illness or condition.

The CIZ may also have additional questions for care providers, such as support workers, treatment providers or care farms. The CIZ needs your permission to share information with them. The CIZ will therefore also send you an authorisation form to obtain your permission for this purpose.

The information the CIZ gathers will only be used to form the official CIZ opinion that they send to us.

Be sure to send your completed form, the requested medical documents, and the authorisation form to the CIZ within the time limit. Please take into account that it takes time to collect the information and fill in and send the forms. Once the CIZ has received this information from you, it will start conducting its assessment. 

Important: Do not send any medical information to the SVB, as it will not be taken into account in the assessment.

How does the CIZ formulate its opinion?

The CIZ will make a thorough assessment of your child’s situation based on the information it receives. The assessment consists of 10 areas where your child may need extra care. The CIZ will give points for each of these areas. The total number of points will determine whether the CIZ’s opinion is negative or positive.

If, at the end of the assessment, there are not enough points for the CIZ to give a positive opinion, they will contact you.

If you would like to know how the CIZ assesses a child’s care needs , go to the CIZ website and download the PDF ‘Beoordelingskader’ (available only in Dutch). This PDF contains information on extensive care and the assessment framework used by the CIZ. If you have any questions about the assessment framework, you can phone the CIZ on +31 88 789 1400.

The CIZ will inform us of their opinion

If their opinion is positive and your child meets all the qualifying conditions, you will get child benefit at twice the basic rate. If the opinion is negative, you will not be awarded child benefit at twice the basic rate.

If the Care Needs Assessment Centre (CIZ ) gave your child a Wlz care indication on or after 1 July 2024, or you submitted a claim to us yourself on or after 1 July 2024, we will check whether we can backdate your claim. Child benefit at twice the basic rate can be backdated by a maximum of 2 quarters . How many backdated quarters you can get depends on the date your child met all the qualifying conditions, and the date we received your claim.

If you have received child benefit at twice the basic rate for a full year because of your child’s extensive care needs, you may be able to get an extra yearly payment.

Find out whether you qualify for child benefit at twice the basic rate

If your child needs extensive care and you want to know whether you may qualify for child benefit at twice the basic rate, answer the questions below to find out whether it is worth submitting a claim.

Your child has received a Wlz care indication

Your child does not have a Wlz care indication

You received the Wlz care indication for your child on or after 1 July 2024

You received the Wlz care indication for your child before 1 July 2024

You have granted the CIZ permission to share your details with us

You have not granted the CIZ permission to share your details with us

Your child is 18

Your child is aged 3 to 17

Your child is aged 3 to 17

Your child is 18

Your child is 18

Your child is aged 3 to 17

Your child sleeps at home at least 4 nights a week

Your child sleeps at home at least 4 nights a week

Your child sleeps at home at least 4 nights a week

Your child has an illness, disorder, condition or disability

Your child has been diagnosed with an illness, disorder, condition or disability by a doctor, specialist or treatment provider

Your child has been diagnosed with an illness, disorder, condition or disability by a doctor, specialist or treatment provider

Your child sleeps at home at least 4 nights a week

You can apply for child benefit at twice the basic rate.

If the Care Needs Assessment Centre (CIZ) assessed in the past whether your child needs extensive care, it can often use the information stated in the Wlz care indication to give us its opinion quickly. To do this, however, the CIZ needs your permission. You can grant your permission on our claim form.

Your child sleeps at home less than 4 nights a week

You do not qualify for child benefit at twice the basic rate, so there is no point in submitting a claim. Child benefit at twice the basic rate is intended for children who sleep at home at least 4 nights per week.

Your child sleeps at home at least 4 nights a week

You can qualify for child benefit at twice the basic rate. You do not need to do anything.

The Care Needs Assessment Centre (CIZ) assessed in the past whether your child needs extensive care. It can often use the information stated in the Wlz care indication to give us its opinion quickly.

We will send you a decision.

Your child sleeps at home at least 4 nights a week

If your child is 18 now but was still 17 on the first day that the CIZ issued the Wlz care indication, you can claim child benefit at twice the basic rate.

If the Care Needs Assessment Centre (CIZ) assessed in the past whether your child needs extensive care, it can often use the information stated in the Wlz care indication to give us its opinion quickly. To do this, however, the CIZ needs your permission. You can grant your permission on our claim form.

Your child needs a lot of extra care because of an illness, disorder, condition or disability

You can submit a claim for child benefit at twice the basic rate to us. Because we cannot assess your child’s extensive care needs ourselves, we will ask the Care Needs Assessment Centre (CIZ) to give us their opinion. The CIZ will assess how much care your child needs.

Therefore, after you have submitted your claim, the CIZ will contact you.

The CIZ will ask you to send it:

  • a completed comprehensive form
  • an authorisation form
  • medical documents regarding your child’s illness or condition

If you have any questions about the information you have to send to the CIZ,

please contact the CIZ by telephone on +31 88 789 1400.

You should be aware that it may take you some time to gather the information requested and to complete and send the various documents to the CIZ. After receiving the requested information and conducting its assessment, the CIZ will give us its opinion. The CIZ’s opinion can be positive or negative. After we have received this advice, we will determine whether or not you qualify for child benefit at twice the basic rate. If the advice is positive and your child meets all the qualifying conditions, you can get child benefit at twice the basic rate for your child.

Important: Do not send any medical information to the SVB, as it will not be taken into account in the assessment.

Your child sleeps at home at least 4 nights a week

You can apply for child benefit at twice the basic rate.

If the Care Needs Assessment Centre (CIZ) assessed in the past whether your child needs extensive care, it can often use the information stated in the Wlz care indication to give us its opinion quickly. To do this, however, the CIZ needs your permission. You can grant your permission on our claim form.

Your child needs a lot of extra care because of an illness, disorder, condition or disability

Your child is now 18. You cannot get child benefit at twice the basic rate, so there is no point submitting a claim.

If you have already submitted a claim and your child was still 17 on the first day of the quarter in which we received the claim, the CIZ will assess whether your child needs extensive care and give us its opinion. We will then decide whether you can get child benefit at twice the basic rate.

Your child sleeps at home at least 4 nights a week

You can get child benefit at twice the basic rate.

If the Care Needs Assessment Centre (CIZ) assessed in the past whether your child needed extensive care, it can often use the information stated in the Wlz care indication to give us its opinion quickly. To do this, however, the CIZ needs your permission. You can grant your permisison on our claim form.

Your child is older than 18

You do not qualify for child benefit at twice the basic rate, so there is no point in submitting a claim. In order for you to qualify for Dutch child benefit at twice the basic rate, your child must have been diagnosed with an illness, disorder, condition or disability by a doctor, specialist or treatment provider.

This is usually documented in a written diagnosis. The doctor, specialist or treatment provider will indicate whether your child has an illness, disorder, condition or disability. If no diagnosis has been made, but the doctor, specialist or treatment provider strongly suspects that your child has an illness, disorder, condition or disability, they will have explained this.

Without a diagnosis or explanation from the doctor, specialist or treatment provider, you will not qualify for Dutch child benefit at twice the basic rate.

Your child has not been diagnosed with an illness, disorder, condition or disability by a doctor, specialist or treatment provider

You are not entitled to child benefit at twice the basic rate, so there is no point submitting a claim. In order for you to qualify for Dutch child benefit at twice the basic rate, your child must have been diagnosed with an illness, disorder, condition or disability by a doctor, specialist or treatment provider.

This is usually documented in a written diagnosis. The doctor, specialist or treatment provider will indicate whether your child has an illness, disorder, condition or disability. If no diagnosis has been made, but the doctor, specialist or treatment provider strongly suspects that your child has an illness, disorder, condition or disability, they will have explained this.

Without a diagnosis or explanation from the doctor, specialist or treatment provider, you will not qualify for Dutch child benefit at twice the basic rate.

Your child has not been diagnosed with an illness, disorder, condition or disability by a doctor, specialist or treatment provider

You do not qualify for child benefit at twice the basic rate, so there is no point in submitting a claim. In order for you to qualify for Dutch child benefit at twice the basic rate, your child must have been diagnosed with an illness, disorder, condition or disability by a doctor, specialist or treatment provider.

This is usually documented in a written diagnosis. The doctor, specialist or treatment provider will indicate whether your child has an illness, disorder, condition or disability. If no diagnosis has been made, but the doctor, specialist or treatment provider strongly suspects that your child has an illness, disorder, condition or disability, they will have explained this.

Without a diagnosis or explanation from the doctor, specialist or treatment provider, you will not qualify for Dutch child benefit at twice the basic rate.

Your child is 18 or older

You do not qualify for child benefit at twice the basic rate, so there is no point in submitting a claim. You can only qualify for Dutch child benefit at twice the basic rate if your child requires a lot of extra care in connection with an illness.

Your child does not need a lot of extra care because of an illness, disorder, condition or disability

You do not qualify for child benefit at twice the basic rate, so there is no point in submitting a claim. You can only qualify for Dutch child benefit at twice the basic rate if your child requires a lot of extra care in connection with an illness, disorder, condition or disability.

Your child is under the age of 3

You do not qualify for child benefit at twice the basic rate, so there is no point in submitting a claim. Child benefit at twice the basic rate is intended for children aged 3 to 17.

Your child is older than 18

You do not qualify for child benefit at twice the basic rate, so there is no point in submitting a claim. Child benefit at twice the basic rate is intended for children aged 3 to 17.

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