WIA benefit and bonus: your rights and advice

Questioner

I am (partly) in the WIA and receive benefits for this. I am still employed by my employer for 60%. Now I will receive a company result-dependent bonus in April. Normally I would receive 100% of it, but now for 60%. The UWV wants to cut my benefits in connection with this bonus. Is that allowed? My bonus is already being cut by my employer and then the UWV would do this as well, that seems like a strange situation to me

Lawyer

There are certain types of income that affect the amount of the benefit, such as a company-dependent bonus. This falls under income from work and is deducted from the benefit (Article 61 WIA, Article 7 Assessment Decree). The following incomes do not affect your benefit. your partner's income; your assets or savings; an inheritance; an annuity payment; alimony; child benefit; the rent allowance, health care allowance or childcare allowance golden handshake; inclusion of a life-cycle arrangement if there is no life-cycle leave. severance pay transition payment; compensation for volunteer work. If you had received 100%, this would also have been reduced by the benefits agency. I can imagine that it feels unfair. NB. It is even possible that your bonus is equated with a profit distribution. You must then take into account that the benefits agency, according to their implementation practice and laid down in an internal work instruction based on case law, allocates the profit distribution to the entire calendar year to which that profit distribution relates, because the profit distribution is a reward for the work performed in that entire calendar year.