How to claim child benefit

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, your health insurer might 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, your health insurer might not repay your medical costs.

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, your health insurer might not repay your medical costs.

1. Register your child with your municipality
2. Inform us of the adoption via My SVB by clicking or tapping ‘Report a change’, or 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, your health insurer might not repay your medical costs.

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.

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, your health insurer might not repay your medical costs.

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

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 lives in the Netherlands

1. Register your child with your municipality
2. Within 3 to 6 weeks, you will receive a letter from us
3. When you have received our letter, you can submit a claim child for benefit via My SVB

If you have not received a letter from us after 6 weeks, 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, your health insurer might not repay your medical costs.