How much benefit will I receive?

You do not determine the amount of your benefit yourself. This is done by the national government in The Hague. If you receive a benefit together with your partner, you will receive 100% of that amount. If you don't have a partner, you get 70% of that amount. The amount of this changes twice a year: on January 1 and July 1.

These things determine the amount of your benefit:

• Your age. Anyone under the age of 21 will receive a lower benefit. Until you are 21^e are your parents liable for maintenance? They have to take care of you. Is there a particular reason why this is not possible for you? Please indicate this to your contact person.
• Are you single or do you have a partner? If you receive a benefit together with your partner, you will receive a different benefit than if you do not have a partner.
• The number of people you live with at an address. If you live with more people at your address, you can often share your living costs. You will therefore receive less benefit.
• The type of housing you live in. If you stay in a care institution, where the housing costs are paid from other schemes, your benefit is also lower.

Having or not having children does not affect the amount of your social assistance benefit. You can request the extra financial support that you may need from the Tax Authorities and the SVB. These are, for example, child benefit and child budget.

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Are you staying at one address with one or more adults? We will then adjust the amount of your benefit accordingly. This is called the cost sharing standard. The more housemates aged 27 or older, the lower your benefit or the benefit of your housemate. The law says that you can then share the living costs together. For the cost-sharing standard, it does not matter whether you are married or whether you are related. It also doesn't matter why you share a home together.

Do you have a benefit yourself? And are you younger than 27? Then your housemates aged 27 and older do count as a cost-sharing roommate (unless there is a commercial rental contract).

The cost-sharing standard can, for example, apply to these situations:

• A household of two or more adults who share a home.
• A family with two parents and an adult child who still lives at home.
• A grandpa or grandma you took into your home
• A brother, sister, cousin or niece that you have taken into your home.
• The partner of your adult son or daughter that you have taken into your home.
• You are younger than 27 and receive a social assistance benefit. And you live with housemates aged 27 or older.

Adults who do not count towards the norm are:

• Children/housemates younger than 27 years.
• Pupils and students who follow an MBO, HBO or WO and are entitled to student finance (or WTOS: Allowance for Educational Contribution and School Costs).
• Room tenants and boarders who pay a normal (commercial) rent for the room, living expenses and lodging. Or (if they receive benefits themselves) their landlords or landlords.

Income and assets of housemates

The income and assets of your housemates do not count towards entitlement to benefits. Only your own income and assets. If you are married/cohabiting, your partner's income and assets do count.

The table below shows the cost-sharing standard for different numbers of cost-sharing. The first column shows how many people the household consists of. In the next column you can see how high the percentage of benefits is that each person receives and in the last column is the total of everyone together.

An example:

• If the amount of a benefit for married persons is 1,300, then you will receive 70% as a single living alone. That is 910,- per month.
• If four single people live at one address, they will all receive 40% from the 1,300. That's 520.-.
• Together they will then receive 2080, which is equal to 160% of the benefit for married people.

Are you unable to properly estimate what it would look like in your situation based on this example? Please contact the legality consultant.