Extra child benefit payment for children with extensive care needs
If your child lives at home and needs extensive care, you may qualify for an extra payment under the child benefit scheme. You can get the extra payment if you have received child benefit at twice the basic rate for a whole year (1 January until 31 December) because your child has extensive care needs. The extra amount is paid once a year.
The amount of the extra payment
The extra payment under the child benefit scheme is a fixed amount. The amount for 2023, is €2,687.38. You can only receive this amount 1 time, even if you have more children who need extensive care.
What are the conditions?
You can qualify for an extra payment under the child benefit scheme if you have received child benefit at twice the basic rate for all 4 quarters of a calendar year, for a child who lives with you and needs extensive care.
We will also look at your income from work and whether or not you had a fiscal partner. Important: the following are not regarded as income from work: pensions, income support, AOW pension, Anw survivor benefit or WW, WIA and Wajong incapacity benefits.
For 2023, the conditions relating to income from work for fiscal partners have changed.
If you are married or in a registered partnership, you are each other’s ‘fiscal partner’. You can also be fiscal partners if you live together.
We will assess your situation to determine whether you and your partner are ‘fiscal partners’.
If you had a fiscal partner for the whole year, you may still qualify for the extra payment if:
- one of the fiscal partner’s income from work for 2023 was more than €5,547, and
- the other fiscal partner had no income from work, or their income from work was no more than €5,547
If you did not have a fiscal partner or you had a fiscal partner for only part of the year, we will not take your income into account.
The ‘income from work’ we take into account for the extra child benefit payment is different from the ‘total income’ or the ‘registered income’ used by the Belastingdienst. For the extra payment, we look at the following income from work:
- taxable wages or benefits from the Netherlands minus travel expenses. You can find your taxable wages or benefits on your annual statement under ‘fiscaal loon’ or ‘loon voor de loonheffing’. Your travel expenses are deductible from this amount
- taxable income from work as a freelancer, home help, performing artist or professional sportsperson
- profit from your company that is taxable
- payments you receive from a person’s personal care budget (PGB) because you provide care for that person
Claiming the extra child benefit payment
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