AOW benefits by region, 2006-2018
Description
The table provides insight into the number of full and reduced benefits under the General Old Age Act (AOW).
The AOW is a general, population-wide, compulsory insurance that guarantees an income to persons with the AOW pensionable age. In the Dutch social security system, this is a national insurance scheme.
In principle, anyone who has not yet reached the AOW pension age and lives in the Netherlands is insured for the AOW.
Persons who do not live in the Netherlands but who are employed in the Netherlands on which payroll tax is paid are also insured.
For periods of residence abroad, one can insure against loss of entitlement to an AOW benefit.
A benefit can be transferred abroad within the framework of the Act on Export Benefits (Law BEU).
The number of benefits is broken down by a number of characteristics of the benefit recipient:
— gender;
— age;
— region.
Until December 2013, the above characteristics were taken over from the Social Insurance Bank (SVB). As of January 2014, the statistics ‘AOW benefits’ have been included in the System of Social Statistical Files (SSB).
As a result, the municipal population registers are taken as a source for the above characteristics other than the country of residence. For the purpose of determining the number of foreign benefits on the basis of the country of residence, the information from the SVB is taken over.
Data available from: 4th quarter 2006 – 4th quarter 2018.
Status of the figures:
The figures in this table are final.
Changes as of 1 July 2019:
None, this table has been discontinued.
When will there be new figures?
No longer applicable.
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https://opendata.cbs.nl/statline/#/CBS/nl/dataset/71472ned/table |