Advance Social assistance benefit

If you apply for a Social assistance benefit , the municipality must first make a decision. If this takes longer than 4 weeks, you will receive a provisional advance. The municipality will pay the advance to you within 4 weeks of your application for a Social assistance benefit benefit.

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Approach

The municipality will transfer the advance to you. You do not have to do anything for this.

Have you not received an advance payment? If so, please contact the municipality.

Description

If you apply for Social assistance benefit benefits, the municipality must first assess your application. This may take several weeks. Until then, you will have no income.

Will it take longer than 4 weeks to assess your application? Then you will receive a provisional advance so that you still have money. You do not have to apply for this advance yourself. The municipality will pay it to you if you meet the Requirements . You will then receive an advance every 4 weeks until the municipality has made a decision.

Does it later turn out that you are not entitled to assistance after all? Then you must repay the money that was advanced to you.

Are you entitled to Social assistance benefit? Then the municipality calculates how much Social assistance benefit you should have received. The advances you received will be deducted from this. The difference will be paid to you as an initial benefit. You do not have to repay the advances paid.

Requirements

The Requirements for receiving an advance on a Social assistance benefit are:

  • You have provided all the information the municipality needs for your Social assistance benefit application.
  • The municipality has not yet made a decision on whether you will receive Social assistance benefit benefits.

Term

The municipality will pay you the advance 4 weeks after you apply for a Social assistance benefit. After that, you will receive the advance every 4 weeks. The advance stops as soon as the municipality has made a decision on your application for a Social assistance benefit benefit.

Objection and appeal

You cannot object if the municipality does not pay you an advance or pays you too little. Is the advance payment necessary for you? Then you can ask the province to make a ruling. The province can order the municipality to pay you a (higher) advance.

This ruling is valid until the municipality has decided on your application for assistance.

The address of the Chairman of the Provincial Council of the Province of Limburg is:
Chairman of the Provincial Council of Limburg
Postbus 5700
6202 MAASTRICHT

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