This provides some compensation for the costs of raising children. Parents are entitled to this benefit for children up to the age of 18. Under the AWBZ, the entire population of the Netherlands is insured for a number of health care provisions. This includes homecare and exceptional medical risks such as admission to a nursing home. Social provisions There are several social provisions.
More information is available at the social security agencies.
More information you can get at the social department of the municipal where you are living or where you are going to live. The social provisions are paid from tax revenues. If a person cannot provide for himself because he is not entitled to a social security benefit, he can claim National Assistance, our most important social provision. Before a person can claim National Assistance, he must use his own assets. The IOAW is intended to provide older and partially disabled persons who are unemployed an income at the minimum guaranteed level.