Child benefit - You are going to live and work outside the Netherlands

If you start living and working in another country, your Dutch child benefit will usually stop.

Child benefit if you live outside the Netherlands

If you work outside the Netherlands, you can still get child benefit if:

• you are going to work outside the Netherlands temporarily and you have a posting/secondment certificate;
• you have Dutch nationality and work for a Dutch government organization;
• you work for a Netherlands-based transport company and you transport goods or persons outside the Netherlands.

Child benefit from outside the Netherlands

You or your partner may also get family benefits from another country or from an international organization. This will be the case if:

• you or your partner works for an international organization, or
• you or your partner works for the government of a country other than the Netherlands, or
• you work in the Netherlands and your partner lives and works in another country

There are agreements in place between countries that determine which country has to pay family benefits. If you get child benefit from a country which pays a lower rate of family benefits than the Netherlands, the SVB will supplement the amount up to the rate applicable in the Netherlands.

Dutch family benefits may include TOG care allowance and child budget as well as child benefit. If the amount of non-Dutch child benefit is higher than the Dutch child benefit but you also get a TOG allowance or a child budget, the total Dutch amount may be higher. It is therefore a good idea to claim Dutch child benefit as well. We will then investigate whether you are entitled to a supplement from the Netherlands.