When your child benefit will stop

Additional conditions apply for qualifying for child benefit for children aged 16 or 17. Children must go to school or have a school-leaving qualification . 

If your child is 16 or 17 and they leave school without a school-leaving qualification, your child benefit will stop. 

Child benefit will only continue to be paid in certain situations.

The parent with whom the child lives gets child benefit. If your child goes to live with the other parent, your child benefit will stop. 

If you are co-parenting , you should make arrangements about how you want to divide the child benefit. If you do not make any arrangements, each parent can get half of the child benefit.

If your child leaves home and you pay a minimum of €522 towards the support of your child, you will get child benefit. If you pay less, your child benefit will stop.

If you start living or working outside the Netherlands, you might no longer get Dutch child benefit. 

You may get family benefits from the other country.

If the parent who died was living in the Netherlands and receiving Dutch child benefit, the child benefit will stop automatically. We will send a letter about this. 

The person with whom the child goes to live will be able to get child benefit. 

If a parent dies outside the Netherlands, their death must be reported to us within 6 weeks. We will need a copy of the death certificate .

If the child who died lived in the Netherlands, no action need be taken for child benefit purposes. 

The child benefit payments will stop automatically at the end of the quarter . We will send a letter about this. 

If child benefit is paid for more than 1 child, the new amount will be stated in the letter. 

If a child dies outside the Netherlands, their death must be reported to us within 6 weeks. We will need a copy of the death certificate .