Social security; key figures, number of benefits

This table shows actual key figures of benefits concerning labour disablement, unemployment, income support and national insurances.

Data available from: January 1998.

Status of the figures:
- the figures in this table can be definitive, revised provisional or provisional;
- the monthly and quarterly figures represent the situation at the end of a period;
- the annual figures are averages;
- the figures concerning income support of the last three months are based on an estimation and therefore provisional. After three month these figures will be replaced by revised provisional figures and after one ore two years the figures become definitive.

Changes as of 1 November 2023:
Revised are:
- the figures of the benefits (related to) income support of May 2023.

Added are:
- the provisional figures of the benefits (related to) income support of August 2023;
- the provisional benefits AOW and Anw of September 2023;
- the figures of unemployment benefits not seasonally adjusted and benefits IOW of August 2023;
- the provisional figures of the disablement benefits of August 2023;
- provisional figure benefits AKW of 2nd Quarter 2023 has been added.

The figures mentioned below have become definitive:
- the figures benefits AOW and Anw of July 2023;
- the figures of unemployment benefits not seasonally adjusted and benefits IOW of June 2023;
- the provisional figures of the disablement benefits of May 2023;
- figure benefits AKW of 1st Quarter 2023 has become definitive.

When will new figures be published?
New figures will be published in November 2023.