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In 2021, childcare benefits were paid for over 1 million children. The number of children with parents receiving a childcare allowance has been rising since 2015, although growth has levelled off in...

There is a lot of social debate about income inequality. Has income inequality increased over the longer term or not?

Dutch central government paid just over 10.4 billion euros in income-related allowances for housing, health care and children in 2013. Spending on care allowances, in particular, rose, to 5.1 billion...

In 2013, the number of children attending day care centres has fallen for the second year in a row. On 31 December 2011, 322 thousand 0 to 3-year-old children attended day care centres versus 284...

The Dutch tax authorities paid out over 2.4 billion in child care compensation in 2012. This is about 400 million less than in 2011.

In 2011 over half million Dutch parents received child care allowances. The costs of child care per parent averaged close to 7,300 euro. The parents themselves paid nearly 2,000 euro of this. The...

The number of parents receiving an allowance for care provided by registered childminders was reduced considerably in 2010, but more parents received an allowance for other types of childcare.

The Dutch government spent nearly 10 billion euro on income-dependent allowances for housing, care and childcare in 2009. This is half a billion more than in 2008.

Requests for childcare allowances were submitted for 30 percent of children under the age of twelve in 2008.

Last year, 462 thousand parents in the Netherlands received a childcare allowance, 77 thousand more than in 2007. Total costs of childcare amounted to 3.2 billion euro; parents received 2.6 billion...

Mothers working long hours, more often use formal child care facilities than mothers with small jobs.

One in four Dutch children were cared for in an official day-care provision in 2007. This is more than in 2006, when one in five children were in official childcare.