Child benefit at twice the basic rate for a child living at home who needs extensive care
If you have a child living at home who needs extensive care, you can get child benefit at twice the basic rate providing your child is aged 3 or older, and under 18. The SVB does not have the expertise to assess a child’s care needs. Instead, we ask the Care Needs Assessment Centre (CIZ) to make this assessment and give us their opinion.
Unfortunately, due to a delay at the CIZ, it will take more than 8 weeks before you receive a decision from us We will send you a letter about the delay, giving the date by which you can expect to receive a decision.
The CIZ will send you a form asking for details of your child’s illness or disorder. If they need additional information about your child, they will tell you about this when they call you to discuss the details you gave on the form.
The CIZ may also have additional questions for care providers, such as support workers, treatment providers or care farms. If so, the CIZ will send you an authorisation form to obtain your permission first. All of the information the CIZ gathers will be used to form the official CIZ opinion that they send to us.
The CIZ divides the possible care needs into 10 sections and gives points for each section. Based on the total number of points, the CIZ gives a positive or a negative opinion. You can get child benefit at twice the basic rate if the opinion is positive, but not if it is negative.
If you want to know how your child’s care needs are assessed, go to the CIZ website and download the PDF ‘Beoordelingskader’ (assessment framework) on the page ‘Wat is intensieve zorg’ (what is meant by extensive care) (only available in Dutch).
If you have received child benefit at twice the basic rate for a full year because of your child’s extensive care needs, you may be able to get an extra yearly payment.
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If your child needs a lot of care and you want to know whether you may be eligible for child benefit at twice the basic rate, fill in the questions below.
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