Assistance, reexamination

Re-examinations include the following:

• Are you still receiving the correct benefit?
• Is your benefit calculated properly?
• Has your income, if any, been deducted correctly?
• Have your assets been determined correctly?

The municipality can decide how often to conduct a reexamination. This may have to do with your ability to find work, but also with signals that something may have changed in your entitlement to benefits. You are required to cooperate with a reexamination.

There is an administrative reexamination and an oral reexamination.

Administrative review

An administrative reexamination is there to see if you are still entitled to benefits. For this "lawfulness review," you will be given a reexamination form. You fill in the details, provide the requested additional information and return it to the municipality. The reexamination is then completed administratively.

Oral reexamination

A full reexamination may also take place to discuss your progress in finding work. For this "efficiency review," you will receive a reexamination form and an invitation to an interview. The interview will take place at the municipality or at your home; this is stated in the invitation. Before the interview, fill out and sign the forms. During the interview, all relevant issues for the benefit will be discussed.

Based on the reexamination, the municipality assesses your entitlement to benefits. This will look at the following points:

• Are you still entitled to the benefit?
• Do you have income or assets available?
• Can you turn to another agency, such as the UWV?
• Are there changes in your personal circumstances that require the amount of your benefit to be adjusted?
• Are there other changes that affect your eligibility for benefits?
• Is there work for you to find?
• How can you regain your own income as soon as possible?

Decision of the municipality

After the reexamination, you will receive written notification of the results of the reexamination. This letter will contain agreements on how you can earn your own income again as soon as possible. An outflow contract may be attached. Compliance with this contract will be checked at the next re-examination. If you do not agree with the result, you can lodge an objection with the municipality.

For an administrative review, show the following supporting documents:

• your registration certificate from the UWV WERKbedrijf
• fully completed and signed reexamination form
• your job applications in the period since the previous reexamination
• any recent training achievements

For an oral reexamination, show the following supporting documents:

• your registration certificate from the UWV WERKbedrijf
• fully completed and signed reexamination form
• your job applications in the period since the previous reexamination
• any recent training achievements
• proofs of rent payment
• recent divorce papers, if any, if not already known to the UWV WERKbedrijf
• evidence of the amount of rent
• proof of your income and that of your partner and other family members, if any
• proof of debts of you and your partner and other family members, if any
• bank statements from the last 3 months