Income in addition to your benefit

Is the social assistance benefit you receive a supplement to your other income? Then we calculate how much benefit you will receive from us every month. We supplement your income up to the social assistance standard.

An income statement is the form on which you enter the amount of your income. You must also provide the documents on which we see this income. Usually this is your salary slip or a specification. We use this data to make a good calculation.

You must submit an income statement each month for the following types of income:

• Income from work (if you are employed)
• Income you get from your work as a self-employed person
• Income from internship allowance or volunteer work
• If you have a Sickness Benefits Act
• If you have unemployment benefits
• If you receive alimony

Do you have income from Wajong, WIA, WAO or pension? Then you do not have to submit an income statement. You then use an amendment form.

Do you have an income from Wajong, WIA, WAO or pension? Then we supplement your income up to the social assistance standard. In these cases you do not have to complete an income statement. This type of income usually changes only twice a year. In January and in July. This is often a few percent. We call that indexing.

You will receive a letter from us twice a year in which we ask you to pass on this change. This concerns the new amount after indexation. Have you not received a letter from us and have your income changed? Then pass this on to us. Fill in the change form.

If you submit the form to us, we will immediately send you a new form for next time.

You can also use the change form to report other changes in your situation.

Every month you will receive an e-mail with a link to the income statement form. Did you not get it once or did you lose it? Then go to “how do I complete an income statement” on this page. You can read how to fill in and what to expect. At the bottom you will see the button “Submit income statement”. By clicking on this you can start filling in (DigiD required).

Would you like to receive an email with a link? Please contact your legality consultant or backofficeweni@tilburg.nl.

You submit your income statement no later than the last day of the month. Is that not possible or do you not have the details yet? Then you submit it later. You will receive the benefit later. Will this get you in trouble? Please contact your legality consultant to discuss this.

Digitally submit income statement

• You will receive a link from us in your email every month.
• You click on the link and log in with DigiD.
• You start by completing the income statement.
• You can attach supporting documents during the digital filling (for example pay slip or bank statement).
• You will receive a confirmation email at the email address you provided.
• Your completed income statement, with supporting documents, is received by the Work and Income Back Office.
• The Work and Income Back Office processes your income statement.
• Through tilburg.nl/mijngemeente (login with DigiD required) you follow the status. You can see here when we will process your income statement, etc.
• Not all the supporting documents at hand yet? You can also add this via www.tilburg.nl/mijngemeente. Do this as soon as possible. We can only process your income statement once it is complete.

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If you are unable to submit your income statement digitally, please contact your legality consultant.

This depends on the income you have. If you have income from work, you must submit a salary slip. For income from another benefit, you must submit a specification. For alimony you provide a bank statement. Not sure what to hand in? Then contact your legality consultant.

You can submit the income statement before the date on which your benefit is paid. You then fill in what income you expect in that month. We then make the calculation with this income. You send the pay slip to us when you have received it. When we have your payslip, we calculate whether the amount you received from us is correct.

Example: if you submit your income statement before the {booking date}, you will receive the benefit before the end of the month.

Will you submit the income statement later? Then you will also receive the benefit a little later. We usually manage to process your income statement properly within 2 days. We do our best to do this as soon as possible. It is important that you have filled this in correctly and that everything is complete.

If you have submitted your income statement on time and have not yet received a benefit, there is a good chance that you have not submitted all the documents that are required. You will then receive a letter stating which information we are still missing. If you didn't get this letter, something else may be going on. Then contact your legality consultant.

It is important that you submit your income statement on time. Only when we have received these (together with the documents) can we calculate how much benefit you receive. Will you submit it later? Then you will also receive your benefit later.

If you do not submit your income statement for a longer period of time, we will send you a letter asking you to submit it anyway. If you do not do this, we cannot calculate how much benefit you will receive from us. If we cannot do that for too long, we will not know whether you are still entitled to a benefit. We will eventually terminate your benefit.

Read the letter you received carefully. We have included in the letter what information we still need. The letter also states whether we have blocked your benefit or whether we were able to pay the benefit after all.

In both situations it is important that you still provide us with the data. Do you not understand the letter or not at all? Then contact your legality consultant.

If you are not sure how to complete the income statement, it is best to call your legality consultant. Does it still not work? Then visit our office at Koningsplein 10 and report to the desk.

If you have income every month:

• We look at your net income on your pay slip.
• We will then look at which social assistance standard applies to you.
• We calculate the difference between the social assistance standard and your income.
• You will be paid that difference.

If you have income every four weeks:

The benefit is a monthly payment. The payment is therefore for one full month. When we calculate what you receive from us, we may only look at the amount you received from your employer in that month. If your salary is paid monthly, then it is easy. An additional calculation is then not necessary. Some employers only pay the salary per 4 weeks and not per month. Then we have to do extra calculations.

In this overview you can see that your salary, which is paid every four weeks, can relate to two months. We must then calculate your income from work back to the correct month. As a result, the amount on your pay slip from your employer is different from the amount you receive from us. Since this may sound a bit complicated, here's an example:

• Frans earns €350.00 from April 25 to May 22. These are four weeks and the dates fall under period 5.
• Period 5 consists of 28 days.
• Divide the €350.00 by 28 days. That means an income of €12.50 per day.
• 6 of the 28 days fall in April. That is 6 x € 12.50 = € 75.00 income in April.
• 22 of the 28 days fall in May. That is 22 x € 12.50 = € 275.00 income in May.
• In the month of April we will top up the amount of € 75.00 to the social assistance standard.
• For the month of May, it's a little more complicated. Frans does not yet know what he will earn in the rest of May. That is why we cut the part of the income that is already known.
• Four weeks later, he will receive a new pay slip for the period May 23 to June 16 (four weeks, period 6). He has again earned €350.00.
• We make the same calculation as in period 5. He has earned €12.50 per day.
• 9 out of 28 days fall in May. That is 9 x 12.50 = € 112.50 in income in May.
• The total income for the month of May is then € 387.50 (€ 275.00 for period 5 and € 112.50 for period 6)
• This means that an amount of € 112.50 was overpaid in May.
• We will deduct this overpayment from the June payment.

To calculate the amounts correctly, we use the table below.

Four-weekly payment calendar

Do you get your income per week? Then we convert this into an income per month in the same way.

If you think something went wrong with the calculation, please contact the legality consultant. He or she then looks at the calculation. The legality consultant is not the one who has calculated this. Can't figure it out? Then your legality consultant will contact the colleague who made the calculation.

When we supplement your income as a self-employed person to the social assistance standard, we also calculate how much you receive from us each month. This is different from when you are employed.

If you start as a self-employed person, you will receive an Excel file from your legality consultant. In this you must state your income (turnover) and expenses (expenses) of your company. There are various costs that you can (partly) declare as a part-time entrepreneur. You may deduct these costs from your income. These are, for example, the costs of registration with the Chamber of Commerce, necessary travel costs and (some) stock costs. Exactly what these costs are depends on your situation. We'll tell you more about this as soon as you start your business

You send this file every month to: backofficeweni@tilburg.nl. You do this before the end of the month. Also send your income statement, the invoices, receipts and other documents that show the turnover and expenses.

A Work & Income employee will look at this overview and calculate how much supplementary benefit you will receive. You may state something as expenses, but we don't see it that way. If you're not sure whether you can report something as an expense, talk to your legality consultant.

The IOAW is a gross benefit. Because we have to pay tax on the IOAW payment every month, we calculate the IOAW payment gross. You will be paid this net per month.

An example:

You have a monthly income of €1,000.00 gross. This income is supplemented by an IOAW benefit. The standard that applies to you from the IOAW is € 1,300.00. We add your monthly holiday allowance to the gross amount of € 1,000.00. This is € 80.00. Your gross income is € 1040.

€1,300 – €1040 = €260.00. This is the gross amount with which your income is supplemented.

Release of your earnings
If you have an income that is lower than the social assistance standard and we supplement it every month, you may apply for an income release. This means that you can save a little more money (for a certain period of time). You can then keep a percentage of your earned income. This is possible up to a maximum amount of € 246 per month, depending on which release applies to you.

The law states that we can grant these releases if they help you continue to work. Your client director will check whether you can make use of the release. Do you think you qualify for a release? Please contact your customer director. The release does not have to be consecutive, if the work is done for less than 6 months, the remainder can be settled later.

Different types of release
We have 4 types of releases for different situations. We explain this to you in the table below. It is possible that multiple releases seem to apply due to your situation. The law states that this is not possible. That is why one release takes precedence over the other. This sequence is indicated in numbers in the table. For example, if you have a release related to a medical time limitation, you cannot also apply for a release related to a wage subsidy.