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Applying for a personal budget (PGB)

If you need care or nursing due to illness or disability, or you need help at home, you may be eligible for a personal budget (persoonsgebonden budget – PGB). You can use this money to pay for your care needs. For example, you can hire someone to help you with your shopping or clean your house, or you can arrange for youth care services for your child.

There are 4 types of care for which you can apply for a PGB:

  • Support at home: if you need support, transport or help at home.
  • Youth care services: if you need help for someone under the age of 18.
  • Heavy, long-term care needs: if you need 24-hour care every day.
  • Nursing and personal care: if you need personal care or nursing at home.

Eligibility to receive a PGB depends on the care you need.

You can apply to the Zorgkantoor (care office), your healthcare insurer or the municipality for a PGB. The type of care you need will determine which organisation you approach to apply for a PGB (in Dutch).

You can receive several PGB's at the same time. For example, if you or your child has an indication for support at home and nursing. Then you will receive one PGB from the municipality and one from the healthcare insurer. 

Read more about combining several PGB's (in Dutch).

This is how it works for you

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Applying for a personal budget (PGB)

With a personal budget (PGB), you purchase assistance yourself. For your Wmo assistance, you choose who your care provider or caregiver will be. You arrange almost everything yourself. You make agreements with your care provider about the care, and you handle the administration yourself. You can find all the information about this on the website of the Dutch government (Rijksoverheid).

To be eligible for a PGB, you must meet a number of requirements:

  • You must draw up a PGB plan, in which you must specify what help you need.
  • The care providers that you select must meet quality requirements.
  • You must conclude an agreement with the care providers yourself.
  • You must be able to manage your PGB yourself. For example, you must conclude a contract with the care providers yourself. You must also direct them and keep records. You can also ask a PGB representative to do this for you.

Payment

You do not receive the money from your PGB yourself. The municipality pays your personal budget to the Sociale Verzekeringsbank – SVB (social insurance bank). You send your care providers’ invoices to the SVB. The SVB will then pay them. You must keep the invoices for your records.

Do you want to arrange the care or assistance yourself? We decide if that is possible in your case. For example, you must be proficient in managing a PGB. This means that you know, for instance, what care you need and that you make good agreements with a care provider. You also need to show a budget plan. Learn more about PGB skills on Rijksoverheid.nl. Or take the PGB-test. This way, you can see if a PGB is suitable for you.

  1. Wmo-report to the municipality

    You first make a  Wmo report.

  2. Kitchen table conversation

    We invite you to a kitchen table conversation (keukentafelgesprek).

  3. Support plan

    You will receive a support plan. If you receive assistance from the Wmo, this plan will outline the proposal for personalized assistance. Because you have opted for a PGB, you will also receive a budget plan.

  4. Signing

    Send the 2 documents completed and signed to us.

  5. PGB conversation

    A PGB conversation will follow. In this conversation, we will assess whether you can manage a personal budget (PGB) yourself. Otherwise, it may be that care in natura  is better suited to you.

  6. Decision

    Within 2 weeks after signing, you will receive a decision from us.

You will be informed within 8 weeks whether you will receive a PGB. You will receive a notification from the municipality regarding this. If your plan is approved, you will receive a decision. This decision will state that you will receive a PGB. From now on, you will manage everything online via the PGB portal (www.mijnpgb.nl). This includes creating a care agreement (agreements about the care) yourself and filling in your own declarations (overview of costs).

Questions about this topic?

Contact the Municipality of Westland