Social Security Law in the Netherlands, 3rd Edition

The Author

List of Abbreviations

General Introduction

Part I. The Institutions

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Old Age, Survivors and Child Benefit Schemes

Chapter 3. Sickness Benefit, Disability and Unemployment and Related Schemes

Chapter 4. Medical Insurance Schemes

Chapter 5. Social Provisions

Part II. Contribution and Financing

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Contributions Regulations for Employee Insurance Schemes

Chapter 3. National Insurance Schemes

Chapter 4. State Funding

Part III. Health Care

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. The Zorgverzekeringswet

Chapter 3. Wet Langdurige zorg (‘Longterm Care Act’)

Part IV. Family Allowances

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Child Benefits

Chapter 3. Child Budgets

Part V. Incapacity for Work

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Sickness

Chapter 3. Long-Term Incapacity to Work

Chapter 4. Pregnancy and Childbirth

Part VI. Industrial Accidents and Occupational Diseases

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Obligations of Employers under Civil Law

Chapter 3. The Absence of a Statutory Insurance Against Industrial

Accidents and Occupational Diseases

Part VII. Unemployment

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Promotion of Reintegration into Work

Chapter 3. Unemployment Benefits

Chapter 4. Insolvency of the Employer

Part VIII. Pensions

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. General Old-Age Pension Act

Chapter 3. General Survivors’ Insurance

Part IX. Provisions for Support in Daily Life

Part X. Subsistence Income Provisions and Social Assistance

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Toeslagenwet

Chapter 3. Wet Inkomensvoorziening Oudere en Gedeeltelijk Arbeidsongeschikte Werknemers

Chapter 4. Wet Inkomensvoorziening voor Oudere en gedeeltelijk Arbeidsongeschikte zelfstandigen

Chapter 5. The Participatiewet

Part XI. Claims and Adjudication Procedures

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. The Decision of the Benefit Administration

Chapter 3. The Review Procedure

Chapter 4. Appeal to the Court of First Instance

Chapter 5. Appeal to the Central Appeals Court

Chapter 6. Reversal of Decision by the Supreme Court

Chapter 7. Special Rules for Medical Decisions

Selected Bibliography

Index