You have received a letter from us

In My SVB, go to ‘Report a change’. Under ‘Someone else starts living with you’, fill in your child’s details.

It is important to register your child with your health insurer within 4 months of birth, even if your child was born outside the Netherlands and came to the Netherlands later. If you do not do so, it is possible that your health insurer will not repay your medical costs.

Claim child benefit via My SVB

If you cannot submit your claim online via My SVB, please contact us.

It is important to register your child with your health insurer within 4 months of birth, even if your child was born outside the Netherlands and came to the Netherlands later. If you do not do so, it is possible that your health insurer will not repay your medical costs.

Claim child benefit via My SVB.

If you cannot submit your claim online via My SVB, please contact us.

If you have registered your child with the municipality, you do not have to do anything. We will automatically adjust your child benefit and send you a letter about this.

If you have not received a letter from us within 4 weeks of registering your child with the municipality, please contact us.

It is important to register your child with your health insurer within 4 months of birth, even if your child was born outside the Netherlands and came to the Netherlands later. If you do not do so, it is possible that your health insurer will not repay your medical costs.

You do not have to do anything. We will automatically adjust your child benefit and send you a letter about this.

It is important to register your child with your health insurer within 4 months of birth, even if your child was born outside the Netherlands and came to the Netherlands later. If you do not do so, it is possible that your health insurer will not repay your medical costs.

Child benefit is paid to the parent who lives with the child.

If your child lives with you and you have not claimed child benefit, you can do so via My SVB.

If your child lives with you and your ex-partner in turn, you may be ‘co-parenting’. This will be the case if:

• you are both responsible for raising and caring for your child
• your child lives with each parent for a more or less an equal amount of time
• you share the cost of raising your child and you both pay roughly the same
• these arrangements have been recorded in a written agreement signed by both parents, or they have been decided by a court of law

If you are co-parenting, you and your ex-partner can agree on how the child benefit should be divided between the two of you. If you do not make an agreement, you will each get half of the child benefit. Contact us if you are co-parenting.

If you and your partner separate, this will normally also affect the child budget that is paid by Dienst Toeslagen. If you did not receive child budget before you separated, you may be entitled to child budget after the separation.

If your child is 18 or older, you cannot claim child benefit. Child benefit is intended only for children under the age of 18.

1. Register your child with your municipality
2. We will then send you a letter within 3 to 6 weeks
3. Do not submit your claim until you have received our letter
4. Fill in the child benefit claim form in My SVB
5. Submit your claim

If you have not received a letter from us after 6 weeks, please contact us.

If you do not yet have a DigiD, you can apply for one.

It is important to register your child with your health insurer within 4 months of birth, even if your child was born outside the Netherlands and came to the Netherlands later. If you do not do so, it is possible that your health insurer will not repay your medical costs.