Common situations

Several common situations with regard to social security insurance and working internationally. 

The SVB and UWV refer to this as ‘secondment’. If you are seconded to an EU/EEA country or a country with which the SVB has a treaty, you will probably still simply fall under the Dutch social security laws. You can demonstrate through an ‘(E)101 certificate’ that you are still insured in the Netherlands. See: http://www.svb.nl/int/nl/id/index.jsp (Dutch) and http://www.svb.nl/int/en/id/ (English).

If you will be working in a country which is not part of the EU/EEA and with which there is not any treaty, but will remain an employee of an employer located in the Netherlands and will continue to live in the Netherlands (that is: the foreign stay will not last longer than 12 months, and you will still have a house, for instance, in the Netherlands), then, as a rule, you will remain covered by the Dutch employee insurance schemes. This will apply to the Dutch national insurance schemes, too.

For more information and advice, contact the UWV International Information Line: (+31) (0)888 98 2001 or the SVB’s International Secondment Department: e-mail: id.verzekeringen@svb.nl or telephone: (+31) (0)20 – 656 52 77.

If the foreign artist will be employed by your organisation (if applicable, after a visa and work permit (TWV) are issued) and will receive his/her salary here, he/she will be covered by the Dutch social security laws. Your organisation will pay taxes and contributions in this regard.

If the foreign artist will not be employed by a Dutch organisation, but is being sent by a foreign organisation and comes from an EU/EEA or treaty country, he/she can demonstrate through an (E)101 certificate that he/she is insured in his/her own country. This will apply as well to a foreign artist from an EU/EEA or treaty country who is already paying social security contributions in his/her own country. As the commissioning party, you may not withhold any social security contributions from the salary or fee.

For more information, see:

http://www.svb.nl/int/en/algemeen/wizards/w_nl_btl_wg.jsp;

http://www.weethoehetzit.nl/situatie/34/ik-ga-werken-met-buitenlandse-arbeidskrachten (Dutch)

New to Holland, the official website of the Netherlands on immigration

Dutch health insurance is mandatory for persons working in the Netherlands, even if the person already has insurance in another country and this insurance reimburses the medical costs in the Netherlands. 

For more information about the consequences which working internationally will have for your health insurance, you can contact the Health Care Insurance Board (CVZ). The CVZ administers health insurance in foreign countries.