Other benefits and income
You may qualify for other benefits or income on top of your orphan’s benefit, or after your orphan’s benefit has stopped.
Child benefit is available to all children up to the age of 18. Guardians or carers can claim child benefit.
If you require care as a result of an illness or a disability, you can claim a personal care budget. If you are a minor, your guardian or carer can claim it for you.
You may be able to get more student finance from Dienst Uitvoering Onderwijs (DUO).
If you are entitled to child benefit, you may also be entitled to child budget. A guardian or carer can claim child budget.
If you are aged 18 or over and you live in rented accommodation, you may be entitled to rent benefit from Dienst Toeslagen.
If you are aged 18 or over, you are required to take out health insurance, and you may be entitled to healthcare benefit paid by Dienst Toeslagen.
Foster parents or network foster parents may be entitled to a foster care allowance. For more information, you should contact your municipality (gemeente).
- Read more about foster care allowance on the website of the Dutch government - Rijksoverheid (available only in Dutch) You will be redirected to another website, which will open in a new window.
- Read more about network foster care on the website pleegzorg.nl (available only in Dutch) You will be redirected to another website, which will open in a new window.
Ask your municipality whether you are entitled to support under the Social Support Act (Wmo ) or from youth services.
You may be entitled to an orphan’s pension from your last surviving parent’s company pension fund. For more information, you should contact the pension fund concerned.
You may receive an inheritance after your last surviving parent dies.