The law says you are entitled to a minimum hourly wage. This is the minimum amount you should receive per hour from your employer.

The minimum hourly wage depends on your age. If you want to know what your minimum hourly wage is, go to the government website.

Make good arrangements with your boss about your hourly wage before you sign a contract. If you get less than the minimum hourly wage, you can talk to your boss about it. If the problem is not resolved, you can make a report to the Dutch Labor Inspectorate. You may do this anonymously.

Call the SAMAH Help Desk if you have more questions.

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Almost in every city or village in the Netherlands you have youth workers or a youth center. People work there who can help you with questions about money and perhaps also with looking for work, making a resume for work or questions about debt.

Do you already have a problem with money. Often the municipality employs people, who can help with debt or refer you to debt assistance. Sometimes there are also buddy projects that can help you.

They usually know this from the municipality or youth work.

Don’t know who to ask to help you? Then you can always call or email the SAMAH Help Desk.

If you are working now but will lose your job soon, you can apply for unemployment benefits. You can only do this if you have been working somewhere for more than 6 months. You can apply for it starting 1 week before your work stops.

You can find more about unemployment benefits here.

If you have little income, you can sometimes get extra assistance from the municipality for special expenses. For example, if your refrigerator is broken. You can apply for special assistance from the municipality where you live. You have to apply for it yourself. Or you can ask someone to help you.

You get special assistance only if the rules apply to you.

Read more about special assistance here.

If your parents are still outside Europe, you are entitled to extra study financing (supplementary grant). You can apply for this at DUO through a form and with a letter from, for example, Nidos, Vluchtelingenwerk or SAMAH.

If your parents are in the Netherlands but have little income, you can apply for a supplementary grant yourself.

Read more here.

If you go to school, you may also work. If you don’t earn too much extra by working, you may keep all the salary. If you earn more, you get less student loan. For 2021, the limit is €15,415.63 (this amount is about what you earn together (if you live with your boyfriend/girlfriend) or the salary you pay taxes on).

Look here for the rules.

If you are not working and not attending school, you will receive benefits from the municipality.

You can find more information about benefits here.

When you go to school, you get student finance from DUO. This is sometimes a loan, sometimes not, it depends on the course you are doing. You have to apply for the study financing yourself, at least 8 weeks in advance.

Read all about applying for student loans here.

If you have little income, you can get money from the IRS to help pay your rent. Rent supplement is called that. You have to apply for that yourself. Or you can ask someone to help you do that. You only get rent subsidy if the rules apply to you.

Read all about applying and the rules for rent subsidy here.

Check here if you are entitled to rent allowance

If you have little income, you can get money from the IRS to help pay for your health insurance. Care allowance is called this. You have to apply for that yourself. Or you can ask someone to help you do that.

You only get care allowance if the rules apply to you.

Read all about applying and the rules for care allowance here.

See if you are entitled to care allowance here.