Household assistance (Wmo).
What is it?
The municipality can help you if you can no longer do everything yourself in your household. For example, due to an illness or disability. The starting point of this help is that you can live in a clean and livable house.
The municipality will work with you to find a solution. In certain cases, you can file a report for household help.
How does it work?
What help the municipality gives depends on what is the best solution for you. Together with the municipality, the first step is to see what solutions are possible together with people from your own environment. These may be family, friends or acquaintances, but also your neighbors, for example. We call this using your 'own strength'.
Does this not work or not enough? Then the municipality can arrange help in consultation with you. This help comes in 2 varieties:
- In-kind household assistance
- A personal budget
With in-kind assistance, the help is provided by a provider with whom the municipality has a contract. With a personal budget, you receive an amount with which you must purchase the help you need yourself.
For household help, you pay a co-payment of up to €21 per month. More information on the CAK website.
What to do.
I need help
To determine what kind of help is best for you, contact the municipality. This is called making a "notification" of your (help) request. You can do this easily using the notification form below.
Please note! Due to staff shortages at providers, the wait time before household help can start is longer than usual.
I filed a report. How to proceed now?
If necessary, a customer director of Wmo from the municipality will contact you to make an appointment for a personal interview. This can be at a location of your preference. For the meeting with the Wmo client director, you may always bring someone along, for example a family member or a professional social worker or client supporter. During the meeting we look at your question and what support is appropriate. But also what you can do yourself or with the help of your family or environment. We look with you for a customized solution.
You can request free client support from Algemeen Maatschappelijk Werk Leudal (tel.: 088 - 656 06 00).
What does it cost?
There is no charge for submitting a Wmo notification form.
How long does it take?
When you report for support, the municipality may take 8 weeks to process your report, interview and grant the facility. In practice, this may also be shorter.
It may take longer if, for example, outside consultants need to be consulted (e.g., medical advice) or if you yourself fail to provide certain information in time.
Additional information
The municipality is required by law to investigate the situation of people who come forward with a request for support. This investigation takes place together with the client and his surroundings. In this investigation, the municipality looks at what a person can still do themselves and how the environment can support them.
The municipality also looks at the support a person already receives from other laws, such as the Participation Act, Health Insurance Act or Youth Act. The investigation shows whether the client needs support. Each municipality organizes this investigation in its own way.