- Your child already receives a child benefit supplement for a child with a disability or handicap.
- Your child is awarded at least 12 points on Iriscare's Centre for Evaluation of Autonomy and Disability (Centrum voor Evaluatie van de Autonomie en de Handicap, CEAH) attestation.
- Your child is under 21 years of age (you receive the allowance up to and including the month in which your child turns 21).
- Your child lives in Brussels.
- Your child is Belgian or meets the nationality condition.
Support allowance for children in Brussels
The support allowance is a monthly financial benefit for children with a disability. With the support allowance, the Flemish government wants to support children or young people with high care needs in their participation in society.
Children living in Brussels are also eligible. The support allowance will be paid via the Groeipakket from January 2023 onwards.
When is your child entitled to the support allowance?
How to apply for the support allowance?
If your child lives in Brussels, you have to apply for the support allowance in writing (or by e-mail) via one of the five Flemish payment funds. You can apply via a Flemish payment fund of your choosing. You must be able to prove with an attestation that you already receive a child benefit supplement for a child with a disability or handicap via a Brussels payment fund.
Your child might also be entitled to a participation allowance?
How much is the support allowance?
The support allowance amounts to €331.22 monthly.
When will you be paid the support allowance?
You will receive the support allowance on the 8th of the month, at the same time as the basic amount of the Groeipakket. The first payment will be made on the 8th of February 2023.
Want to know more about the support allowance (in Dutch)?
- What is the support allowance?
- What conditions must your child meet to be entitled to a support allowance?
- Who can I contact if I have questions about the support allowance?
- Who continues to receive the basic support budget (basisondersteuningsbudget) from their care fund and is not entitled to the support allowance?
- Who can provide me with information about my basic support budget payments before January 2023?
- When is the payment of the support allowance suspended?
- Can the support allowance be paid together with an income replacement allowance (inkomensvervangende tegemoetkoming) and/or an integration allowance (integratietegemoetkoming)?
- What is the difference between the support allowance and the care allowance?