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In August 2011, 825 thousand people in the Netherlands were claiming a disability benefit. Nearly half of them received a benefit because of mental health problems or a behavioural disorder.

By the end of September this year, 251 thousand unemployment (WW) benefits were granted, a decline by 3 thousand relative to one year previously.

Custom-made tables on various benefits paid to residents of the Netherlands born in an EU enlargement country. Commissioned by: Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment

In the Netherlands, 179 billion euro ((30 percent of the total amount earned by all Dutch together) was spent on social security last year. Unemployment benefits rose most rapidly by 12 percent...

The Dutch government spent 2.2 billion euro less on disability benefits for young people (Wajong benefits) in 2010. This accounts for one fifth of the country’s total spending on disability benefits.

The most recent figures show that the number of social security benefits granted to people under the age of 65 has risen to 318 thousand in the second quarter of 2011.

Custom-made tables on jobs started by people claiming a social security benefit or who were not entitled to a benefit but were looking for a job, with or without reintegration support.Commissioned...

This paper presents information on young people (15-26 years) in the Netherlands in 2009. Among other things, it looks at young people in education, with a job and receiving social benefits....

Figures on the size of the group of individuals with multiple services at the same time in the domains of care and income in 2009. Commissioned by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW).

The number of people relying on social security varies widely across the Dutch provinces.

Tables on benefit claimants and jobseekers not entitled to a benefit who started a job, with and without reintegration support. Commissioned by: Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW)

Characteristics of potential claimants under the ‘Income Provision for Older Unemployed Persons Act’ (IOW). Commissoned by: Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment

Figures on the labour market opportunities of older unemployed people (45 to 64 years old) in 2008 and one year later, and information on sources of income of all people in this age group in...

The latest figures published show that the number of social security benefits granted to people under the age of 65 has risen by 26 thousand over 2010. The number of social security benefits paid out...

Dutch personal capital was one fifth lower on 1 January 2010 than at the beginning of 2009.

Commissioned by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW), the Centre for Policy Related Statistics has compiled a paper about the percentage of persons moving to regular employment within...

This paper describes the jobs that started in 2008 or 2009 by people claiming a social security benefit or who were not entitled to a benefit but were looking for a job. Commissioned by the Ministry...

301 thousand people aged under 65 years were claiming income support at the end of the third quarter of 2010.

In the first half of 2010 spending on AOW pensions increased by 500 million euro on the first half of 2009. By the end of June 2010 nearly 2.9 million people received AOW pension benefits.

At the request of RWI (Council for Work and Income) and several municipalities, Statistics Netherlands has conducted research on the unused supply of labour among people without income in 2007.

At the request of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW), Statistics Netherlands’ Centre for Policy Related Statistics has calculated figures for 2009 on mothers by whether they had a...

At the end of June this year, 300 thousand social assistance benefits were paid to persons under the age of 65.

Reintegration support is an important tool to increase the number of people moving from a social benefit to work. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW) measures the results of this...

At the end of last year, 1.4 million people, i.e. 12 percent of the population in the age category 15-64 received social assistance, unemployment (WW) or disability benefits.

The number of people younger than 65 years in the Netherlands claiming income support rose again in the first quarter of 2010.