Social Security Benefits by Gender, Age, Housing and Origin, 2008-2013
Description
The table provides an overview of the number of benefits under the General Survivors Act (Anw), which was provided at the end of the reporting period.
De Anw is a national insurance against the financial consequences of death and benefits for survivors, half orphans (until September 2013) and orphans.
As of 1 July 2013, a legislative amendment abolished the right to a half orphan benefit. As of 1 July 2013, a surviving parent with a child under the age of 18 will receive a higher survivor’s benefit. For those who already had a half orphan benefit, the amendment will start on 1 October 2013.
One can only qualify for a benefit if the deceased was insured at the date of death.
In principle, everyone who lives in the Netherlands is insured for the Anw. Those who do not live in the Netherlands but who work in the Netherlands and pay payroll tax are also insured.
A benefit can be transferred abroad, within the framework of the Export Benefits Restriction Act (Law BEU).
For a small part of the Anw benefits, the recipient’s origin group cannot be determined. These are people who live abroad and are not included in the municipal population registers.
The Anw entered into force on 1 July 1996 and replaced the General Wedding and Being Act (AWW) until that date.
The basic data for the Anw are from the Social Insurance Bank (SVB).
The number of benefits is broken down by a number of characteristics of the benefit recipient:
— gender;
— age;
— country of residence;
— origin grouping.
Data available from:
January 2008.
Status of the figures:
The figures in this table are final.
Changes as of 24 February 2015:
None, this table has been discontinued.
When will there be new figures?
No longer applicable, as this statistic has been discontinued as of 1 January 2014.