Municipality of Rijssen-Holten: applying for a personal budget (pgb)
Please note: you can only apply for a PGB if you live in the Netherlands and are registered with a municipality.
With a personal budget (PGB), you receive a budget from the municipality to pay for the care and assistance you need. You will receive a letter (decision) from the municipality outlining the services you are receiving support for. The budget is not deposited into your bank account. Therefore, you do not pay the care providers yourself. You instruct the Social Insurance Bank (SVB) to pay your care providers. The SVB pays health insurers based on an invoice, a timesheet, or a monthly payment.
The municipality assesses whether you meet the following conditions:
- You are able to indicate what problems you have, how they arose and what support helps you with them.
- You are able to perform tasks related to a personal budget, such as choosing a suitable care provider, managing the care provider, entering into a contract and maintaining correct administration.
- You can explain why you want to receive the customized provision as a personal budget and not as care in kind.
- You are responsible for the safe, effective, and client-focused implementation and procurement of the services, home modifications, assistive devices, and other measures that are part of the customized provision. In other words, you are responsible for the quality of the support provided. The same quality requirements apply to the support and care purchased with the personal budget as to in-kind provisions.
How to apply for a PGB:
- Support via the WMO can be applied for via DigiD
Your municipality will inform you within 8 weeks of their decision.
Questions about this topic?
Contact the Municipality of Rijssen-Holten