Financial assistance if you have had a low income for more than three years

If you are unwilling or unable to apply online, download and complete the form Aanvragen individuele inkomenstoeslag (application for individual income allowance). For additional information, download the 2024 explanation. Send the form to the gemeente Leeuwarden. You can also hand it in at the Town Hall.

• You are not going to school or studying.
• You are aged between 21 and the state age of retirement.
• Your income for 2023 is no higher than the amount in table 1 (see ‘Amounts’).
• Your income for 2022 is no higher than the amount in table 2 (see ‘Amounts’).
• Your income for 2021 is no higher than the amount in table 3 (see ‘Amounts’).
• Your assets for 2023 are no higher than the amount in table 4 (see ‘Amounts’).
• Your assets for 2022 are no higher than the amount in table 5 (see ‘Amounts’).
• Your assets for 2021 are no higher than the amount in table 5 (see ‘Amounts’).
• You have made sufficient efforts to increase your income in the past three years, unless you have been exempted from these efforts
• You have provided us with all the information we have asked for in the past three years (information requirement).

Please note that the income and assets of ex-partner(s) also count if you were married or cohabiting with them in the 36 months preceding your application. If you have previously received the income allowance you can reapply one year after the set reference date.

Are you married or do you live together?

Then you apply for the income allowance together.

Do you receive a benefit under the Participation Act?

If you receive a benefits under the Participation Act, you will only be entitled to the income allowance if you have provided all the information needed for your benefit over the past three years.

No allowance for previous years

You cannot apply for an individual income allowance for previous years.

You automatically receive the individual income allowance if you meet the following conditions:

• You have previously received the income allowance.
• Your situation has remained the same.
• The local authority has not given an end date for your allowance.
• You receive benefits under the Participation Act.

Table 1: How much income can I receive?

If your income is lower than the amounts in this table, you are entitled to individual income supplement.

You are entitled to the supplement only if you also meet the conditions under the heading ‘What are the conditions?’.

Income 2024:

Income 2023:

Income 2022:

Income 2021:

Table 2: How much capital are you permitted to have?

If your capital is less than the amount in this table, you are entitled to individual income supplement.

You are entitled to the supplement only if you also meet the conditions under the heading ‘What are the conditions?’.

Assets 2024:

Assets 2023:

Assets 2022:

Assets 2021:

How much individual income supplement to you receive?

Want to know which schemes and allowances you are entitled to? Do the check via the website datgeldtvoormij.