• You do not have enough money for your living expenses. Do you have a partner? Or do you live with someone and share household expenses? Then this person's income and assets will count. The income of children living with you does not count as long as your child is under 27.
• You are 18 years of age or older.
• You live in the Netherlands.
• You can show that you have basic knowledge of Dutch(level 1F). That means you can write and understand short, easy texts. 
• You are not entitled to any other benefit.
• You do not belong to an excluded group of persons, such as prisoners or aliens without residence permits.
• Do you want to move to another municipality? And do you have an assistance benefit? Then you must first look for work there.
• You follow the rules imposed on you by municipality .

Are you from 1 of these European countries? Then for the first 3 months that you are in the Netherlands you will only receive assistance in 1 of these cases:

• You are an employee or self-employed person under EU law. That is:
  • You work a minimum of 16 hours per week.
  • You earn at least 50% of your country's welfare standard.
  • If you are self-employed: your company is registered with the Chamber of Commerce (CoC).
• You became unemployed or disabled against your will. This is less than 6 months ago.
• You are a family member of an EU resident who lives, works, studies or has started a business in the Netherlands. You live at the same address as this family member.

The municipality decides within 8 weeks of receiving your application. The municipality may extend this deadline once.

You can object to the decision on your application. Do this within 6 weeks. Do you then disagree with the decision on the objection? Then file an appeal with the court.

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