Persons receiving benefits; Beneficiaries by region
Description
The table shows the number of people receiving social security benefits. These persons can live both in the Netherlands and abroad. These are persons receiving benefits for incapacity for work, unemployment, old age, social assistance and social assistance-related benefits.
Persons receiving disability, unemployment, social assistance and assistance-related benefits will be available from 2007. The number of people receiving an old-age benefit has been included in the table since 2013.
It is possible for a person to claim multiple benefits.
These may be benefits of the same type (e.g. two disability benefits: WIA, WAZ, Wajong or WAO) or benefits of different types (such as benefits under the Unemployment Act (WW) and social assistance benefits). In the latter case, the person is included in both types of benefits. In the first case, only once (in the case of invalidity benefits).
In the total counts, the person is of course only counted once.
As of October 2021, there has been an increase in the number of WGA benefits. The reason for this is a quality improvement of the process so that a group of self-risk carriers that were previously missing are now included. This is not an increase in the regular number of WGA benefits, but an increase in "persons with a WGA benefit".
The figures are broken down by different regions in the Netherlands and refer to the last day of the reporting period.
The figures on numbers of people receiving benefits per neighbourhood, district or municipality may differ slightly from figures published elsewhere on StatLine, because the most recent data from the Personal Records Database (BRP) is used. Because different StatLine tables are updated at different times, it may happen that a different version of the BRP is used for one table than for another table. In this case, the most recent published figures are the most accurate. The figures refer to the last day of the reporting month.
Status of figures
The figures can be both provisional and definitive. The monthly figures are end-of-year figures. After one to two years, the figures become final.
Changes as of 29 March 2024:
Added are:
Further preliminary figures from July to September 2023.
When will there be new figures?
New figures will come in July 2024.
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https://opendata.cbs.nl/statline/#/CBS/nl/dataset/80794ned/table |