What about the cost-sharing standard when your child returns to live at home?

Joke lives with her 2 minor children in Tilburg. She receives social assistance benefits for a single parent. She also receives a child-related budget, rent and healthcare allowance. This way she can make ends meet financially.

Her daughter Susan (23 years old) comes to live with her temporarily because her relationship is over. Her daughter works 32 hours a week. Joke is worried. She is afraid that her benefits will be lower now that her daughter lives with her.

As long as Susan is not yet 27 years old, it will not affect Joke's benefits. Residents under the age of 27 do not count as cost sharers. This applies to your own children, but also to other residents up to the age of 27.

Only Susan earns money from her job. This may result in Joke's housing benefit being lower. Joke can calculate this together with her daughter on the website www.toeslagen.nl and report that her daughter lives with her.