Insurance for an interim period
Are you emigrating and need insurance for an interim period, e.g., because you’re not yet eligible under the healthcare system in your new country of residence, or because the insurance provided by your employer doesn’t start until a later date? Our Temporary Residence Abroad insurance covers healthcare costs during that interim period. So you can make the transition with peace of mind.
Flexible insurance abroad
If you’re staying abroad for a longer period of time, OOM Temporary Residence Abroad insurance for digital nomads gives you access to quality care via our worldwide network of clinics.
Choose the insurance options that best suit your needs
Put together your own insurance with a choice of three types of cover: Light, Regular and Comfort. SOS insurance is included as standard. You determine the duration of the insurance up to a maximum of two years. You can cancel your insurance daily. So, you’ll only be insured for as long as you need to be.
24/7 Assistance Centre
If you have an emergency or a question about your health, our Assistance Centre is available 24/7. Our friendly and helpful staff are here to support you. Wherever you’re in the world.
Choice of eight supplementary insurance options
In addition to health insurance, you can also choose from eight types of supplementary insurance, e.g. legal assistance, liability, accident or household contents. This means you’ll always be properly insured for unexpected situations.
Choose the insurance options that best suit your needs
There’s lots to sort out when you’re emigrating. Especially during the interim period before you’re fully settled, you don't want to have to worry about anything. That’s why you can put together your own Temporary Residence Abroad insurance. For healthcare insurance, you can choose from three types of cover, which you can extend with eight different types of supplementary insurance.
Put together your own insurance
Reimbursement of necessary medical costs including:
- General Practitioner
- Medication and dressings
- Specialist care
- Ambulance transport and hospitalisation
- Aids following an accident
- Dental costs following an accident up to €225
Not covered:
- Costs of pregnancy and childbirth
- Preventative medicine
Reimbursement of all costs in the Light cover plus:
- Second opinion
- Physiotherapy, manual therapy, exercise therapy and chiropractic treatment (maximum number of treatments)
- Speech therapy (maximum number of treatments)
- Psychotherapy (maximum number of treatments)
- Reimbursement of costs for personal medical transport
- Dental costs following an accident up to €350
Not covered:
- Costs of pregnancy and childbirth (unless acute medical intervention is necessary)
- Preventative medicine
Reimbursement of all costs in the Regular cover, plus:
- Preventative medicine
- Alternative health care
- Glasses and contact lenses
- Artificial/medical aids
- Contraception
- Dental costs following an accident up to €475
Not covered:
- Costs of pregnancy and childbirth (unless acute medical intervention is necessary)
- Vitamins and nutritional supplements
These are a couple of important exclusions. You can find an extended overview of what is and what is not insured.
Medical costs vary significantly per country. This is why we offer a choice of 5 regions:
- World
This cover means you’re insured for healthcare costs throughout the world, including the United States. - World excluding US
If you select this region, you’ll be insured for healthcare costs throughout the world, except for in the United States. - World, excluding US and Singapore
If you select this region, you’ll be insured for healthcare costs throughout the world, except for in the United States and Singapore. - World, excluding US, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Indonesia
If you select this region, you’ll be insured for healthcare costs throughout the world, except for in the United States, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Indonesia. - World, excluding US, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Mexico
If you select this region, you’ll be insured for healthcare costs throughout the world, except for in the United States and the above-mentioned countries.
If, while you’re away, you visit a country for which you're not insured, you can temporarily expand your cover. You can change this via My OOM, or you can contact us.
You can take out Dental Cover to supplement your Healthcare insurance. No own risk excess applies. You decide the insured amount (€350 / €700 / €1,050) per year.
We’ll reimburse the following up to this amount:
- Six-monthly check-up
- Dental treatment as a medical necessity, such as diagnostics, prevention and dental cleaning
- Root canal treatment, crowns and bridges
- Fillings and anaesthetics
Not covered:
- Cosmetic treatments, such as teeth whitening
The travel insurance applies to all insured persons on the policy and includes cover for theft, loss or damage to luggage and unexpected costs.
What's insured?
- Theft, loss or damage to luggage, with a reimbursement of from €1,500 up to a maximum of €4,500, depending on your chosen level of cover. There’s an own risk excess of €125 per event
- Standard cover for digital/electronic devices up to €500; you can take out extra cover for an insured amount of €500 / €1,000 / €2,000 / € 5,000
- Winter sports and particular sports: The insurance reimburses hobby and sports equipment up to €300
- If the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a negative travel advice to your destination, your journey will still be insured
- Unforeseen costs such as repatriation (return to the Netherlands) due to: A life threatening situation, or death of a 1st or 2nd degree family member who is not travelling with you, e.g. parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, brother or sister. Serious damage to your house, household contents or business in the Netherlands
- Additional costs after the loss or theft of your passport
What’s not insured?
- The insurance does not reimburse medical expenses. You can insure yourself for medical expenses with the OOM Healthcare insurance
- Breakdown during your journey: In case of breakdown with own transport, such as car, motorhome or caravan
- Accidents: Permanent disability or death cannot be included in the OOM Travel insurance. You can take out additional Personal Accident insurance to cover this
- Continuous Cancellation insurance: If you have booked a journey, but can’t go unexpectedly, this cannot be included in your Travel insurance. You can take out additional Cancellation insurance to cover this
- Equipment rental for winter sports or particular sports
In some instances, a maximum amount may apply, or you’ll have an own risk excess of €125 per event. You’ll find an extended overview of what is and what is not insured.
Has something been damaged? The rate of depreciation differs per item. Please read properly how depreciation works (only in dutch).
The cancellation insurance applies to all insured persons on the policy. There’s no own risk excess for this insurance.
What's insured?
- Personal circumstances: death, an accident, serious ilness, unexpected medical treatment, complications during pregnancy that prevent you from travelling
- Circumstances affecting a 1st or 2nd degree family member, e.g. parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, brother or sister. Death of a family member, a family member has been in an accident, a family member is seriously ill, unexpected medical treatment of a family member, an application for divorce submitted to court
- Work: you've got a new job for a minimum of 1 year, you've become unemployed through no fault of your own
- Home or company building: your home or company building is severely damaged to the extent that your presence as owner or tenant is necessary, or if the accomodation you booked is damaed and is no longer suitable to stay in
- Self-organised trips: we'll provide partial reimbursement if you have booked all parts of your trip separately, or if one component fails, preventing the whole trip from going ahead
What's not insured?
- If the reason for cancellation was foreseeable when applying for the insurance
- Cancellation due to a disaster abroad is not insured. The calamity fund will sometimes reimburse or partially reimburse the claim
- If you cancel because your travel companion with another cancellation insurance needs to cancel the trip and you don’t want to go alone
You’ll find an extended overview of what is and what is not insured in the policy terms and conditions.
The Third-Party Liability insurance reimburses damage up to €1,250,000 if you accidentally injure someone or damage another person's belongings abroad. And if you’re liable for the damage under the law. You’re not insured for damage to items that you’re renting or leasing, for example.
What's insured?
- Damage you cause while helping someone out. Insured amount is never more than €12,500
- Damage caused by your pets to someone else
- Damage caused by your own home where you’re registered. For example, a roof tile falling on the neighbour's car
- Damage to borrowed items are insured up to €4,500 with an own risk excess of €45 per event
What's not insured?
- Damage you caused intentionally or a crime. This includes damage caused by you to your own belongings or those of your housemates
- Damage you cause while babysitting or while staying with someone else
- Damage you cause with your car. This is covered by your car insurance (third-party)
- You’re not insured if you injure someone or damage someone else's belongings during sports or a game
- Damage caused during paid work. Voluntary work is covered
- Rented items are not insured
The Household Contents insurance covers damage to your household contents at an address abroad due to storm, fire or burglary.
What's insured?
- You decide the insured amount (€25,000 / €50,000 / €75,000 per event). The reimbursement is based on first loss. This means that, in the event of a claim, we do not look at the actual value of the insured items. You’ll be paid the full claim up to a maximum of the insured amount.
- Jewellery is insured for up to a maximum of €1,000. In case of theft, a maximum of €1,000 also applies
- Audio or other equipment is insured for up to a maximum of €2,500
What's not insured?
- Cash, negotiable instruments and cards with an electronic monetary value
- Items placed outside the home: household contents must be located in or attached to the building at the risk address stated on your policy sheet
- Falls and bumps: damage to your household contents due to falls and bumps
There’s an own risk excess of €250 per event. A maximum reimbursement applies to jewellery and audio-visual appliances.
You’ll find an extended overview of what is and what is not insured in the policy terms and conditions. Check the depreciation table (only in dutch) to see if replacement price or current value applies.
The Legal Assistance insurance covers the costs of legal support abroad and applies to all insured persons on the policy.
The insurance applies to claims from €175 and above. You can choose the Basic cover.
What is insured?
- Assistance for redress
- Criminal law assistance
- Contract assistance
- Social insurance provision
- Pension
What's not insured?
- If you’re late in reporting the dispute. This includes divorce, intent, business disputes and existing disputes
- You’ll not receive legal assistance if you’re dispute involves asset management. For example shares, options, bonds, savings deposits or negotiable instruments. This includes contracts involving these matters
- You’ll not receive legal assistance for events you already knew about when taking out the insurance
You’ll find an extended overview of what is and what is not insured in the policy terms and conditions.
ARAG will assess on our behalf whether the requested legal assistance falls under your insurance. If it does, ARAG will provide legal assistance and you can then ask them for permission to appoint local legal service providers. These costs will be reimbursed up to €15,000.
You may also choose a legal specialist in legal proceedings for which a lawyer/solicitor is not mandatory. If you choose a legal specialist outside of ARAG, we’ll reimburse the costs up to €6,000. You’ll not receive legal assistance for events you already knew about when taking out the insurance.
The Personal Accident insurance will make a single payment in the event of permanent disability or death following an accident.
The payment will be:
- Permanent disability: €25,000 / €50,000/ €100,000 / €150,000 (you’ll receive a percentage of this amount, depending on the extent of the disability)
- In case of death: €5,000 / €10,000 / €25,000 / €50,000
- The payment will be lower in case of a motorbike accident
What's not insured?
- Personal Accident insurance does not cover any medical expenses following an accident if you caused the accident due to recklessness
- The accident occurred while participating in a high-risk sport or if the accident was a result of alcohol or drugs (abuse)
The SOS insurance reimburses:
- The costs of repatriation (return to the Netherlands), or evacuation, if treatment is not possible locally and cannot be postponed
- SOS insurance also covers costs due to war and kindred risks
This insurance has no own risk excess.
If you have taken out our Healthcare insurance, SOS insurance is included, so you don’t have to take this out separately.
About our insurance for an interim period
The Temporary Residence Abroad insurance offers certainty while your settling in to your new country of residence. Below, you’ll find an overview of all the information you need.
The Temporary Residence Abroad insurance is for you if:
- You’re going to live abroad for a longer period of time or permanently, and temporarily need insurance for an interim situation, for example in countries such as Sweden or Curaçao.
- You’re no longer registered with a Dutch municipality and are not yet covered under the healthcare system of your new country of residence.
- You’re no longer registered with a Dutch municipality and have already moved to your new country of residence, but cover under your employer’s insurance scheme doesn’t start until later.
- You want to be insured as you would be in the Netherlands if things don’t go according to plan while you’re abroad.
- At OOM, you can easily take out insurance with a choice of 3 types of healthcare cover, including an SOS insurance and reimbursement in case of war and kindred risk.
- You decide your own risk excess: €500 / €1,000 / €2,000 / €5,000. Where a higher own risk excess means a lower premium.
- You can choose from 5 different regions and 8 supplementary types of insurance. So you have the insurance you need.
Medical acceptance is necessary for the Healthcare insurance. For this, we may ask you or your healthcare provider additional questions. We assess your application based on this information, which may take extra time. This is why we recommend you apply for your insurance in plenty of time, to make sure you’re ready for your new adventure well in advance.
This insurance has a term of a maximum of 2 years. If you end up staying longer than originally planned, you can apply for a one-time 60-day extension, as long as the total duration doesn’t exceed 2 years. You can cancel the insurance daily via your personal account or by sending an email. If you’ve already paid the premium in advance, we’ll refund the overpaid premium.
The premium depends on the cover you’ve chosen (Light, Regular or Comfort) and which own risk excess you opted for.
Calculate the premium directly and see how much the insurance will cost you. The premium you see is always the actual amount you need to pay, including insurance tax.
If you need medical care, something has been damaged or want to submit a claim, you’ll find a find step by step guide on our report a claim page. We'll always let you know what will be reimbursed as soon as possible, so you know exactly where you're up to.
OOM abides by applicable sanctions legislation. This means that insurers may not provide cover or reimburse claims if to do so would violate the Sanctions Act or sanctions regulations. If you want to know if this applies to your situation, feel free to contact us. We’ll be happy to help you in any way we can.
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Terms and conditions of our insurance for the interim period
Terms and conditions
- Terms and conditions (pdf)
- Special Terms And Conditions Oom Temporary Residence Abroad Insurance
- Medical aids regulations for Comfort or DeLuxe coverage (pdf)
- Special Terms and Conditions - Legal Assistance Insurance (pdf)
- Special Terms and Conditions - Personal Accident Insurance (pdf)
- Special Terms and Conditions - Travel Insurance (pdf)
- Depreciation table - Travel and Contents Insurance (pdf)
- Special Terms and Conditions - Liability Insurance for Individuals (pdf)
- Special Terms and Conditions - Household Contents Insurance (pdf)