Do you receive a supplement or a one-off payment from Pensioenfonds Witteveen+Bos? If so, this may affect allowances you receive. The allowance (rent or care allowance) may become lower or even stop.
It may also affect the tax you have to pay. This is because the amount of the supplementary or lump-sum payment counts towards your total income in the year you receive the supplementary or lump-sum payment.
Don't spend the amount you receive all at once. First, make sure you know how the benefit or supplement will affect you.
More information about rent allowance
Inform the Tax Administration (Belastingdienst) that you received an one-off payment. This will prevent your rent allowance from stopping. You will then also avoid having to repay rent allowance already received.
What to do?
Complete the form ‘Verzoek bijzondere situatie huurtoeslag' (Request special situation rent allowance). At question 7 (special income) fill in the details of the lump sum payment. Send the form to the Tax Administration. Use the form to ensure that your rent allowance is not reduced.
Have you already had to repay rent allowance due to a lump sum?
You can submit the form up to 5 years after the year in which you received the lump sum payment. For example, did you receive a one-off payment or supplementary payment in 2024 and did you receive no or less rent allowance as a result? Then you still have until 1 January 2030 to submit your request. You will then get back the rent allowance you received too little.
More information about care allowance
A lump sum will increase your income. This may reduce or even stop your care allowance. This happens in the year you receive the lump sum. Is your income lower again a year later? Then chances are you will get the care allowance you had again.
The care allowance only goes down when the Tax Administration knows you received a lump sum.
This means that you have a choice: You can pass on the information to the Tax Administration yourself. Or you can wait for the Tax Administration to process the information from Pensioenfonds Witteveen+Bos. The latter may take a while.
If you do not inform the Tax Administration yourself, you may receive too much care allowance for a while. The Tax Administration does not yet know that you have a higher income. You will then still receive the care allowance you had, but it should actually be lower. As soon as the Tax Administration knows that your income has increased, you will be notified that you have to pay back the care allowance you received too much.
What to do?
Do you want to know whether your care allowance will be reduced by the one-off payment?
Then call the Tax Administration: 0800 - 0543 (this number is free of charge)
Do you call from abroad? Then call +31 555 385 385.
Want to avoid receiving too much and having to pay back? Then report your lump sum or supplement to the Tax Administration as soon as possible. You do this by adjusting your income on the website www.mijntoeslagen.nl.