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Subsidies

Who receives public money, from whom and for what? Five registers, each with its own amount, never added together.

114,718 recipients in the Flemish register5 registers 775,209 entries 12-11-2026 last updated

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Federal transfers

FPS BOSA, financial transfers of the federal government

You moved over from the register Wallonia-Brussels Federation. Only that register has these filters, so they are dropped: budget line.

Amount as published, per year (the year of the transfer)

Amount as published
133.59bn
currency not stated by the source
Recipients
2,474
legal entities with an enterprise number
Entries
19,021
of which 7 without an amount

From 2023 to 2025. These figures cover 80.6% of the register's entries for those years. The rest goes to natural persons or stands in the register without a usable enterprise number.

Largest recipients

  1. Federale Pensioendienst Public body · Brussels · Public administration and defence · 2023 to 2025Largest of 14 programmes: Pensioenen overheidssector
    46.31bn 40 entries
  2. Rijksdienst voor Sociale Zekerheid Public body · Brussels · Public administration and defence · 2023 to 2025Largest of 11 programmes: Evenwichtsdotatie - sociale zekerheid voor werknemers
    27.07bn 30 entries
  3. Federale Overheidsdienst Financiën Public body · Brussels · Public administration and defence · 2024 to 2025Largest of 4 programmes: Wederopbouw Garantiefonds
    6.69bn 6 entries
  4. NATIONALE MAATSCHAPPIJ DER BELGISCHE SPOORWEGEN Other legal form · Brussels · Land transport · 2023 to 2025Largest of 13 programmes: Deelname van de Staat in het kapitaal van de NMBS met oog op de financiering van de investeringen ten gunste van NMBS
    6.34bn 24 entries
  5. INFRABEL Other legal form · Brussels · Warehousing and transport support · 2023 to 2025Largest of 14 programmes: Deelname van de Staat in het kapitaal van Infrabel met het oog op de financiering van de investeringen ten gunste van Infrabel
    5.59bn 32 entries

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Per year

  1. 41.80bn 2023 2023, Amount as published 41,804,947,777, 1,933 recipients
  2. 48.09bn 2024 2024, Amount as published 48,085,738,879, 2,012 recipients
  3. 43.69bn 2025 2025, Amount as published 43,694,634,744, 2,079 recipients

The year is the year of the transfer.

Who pays

Budget allocations

  1. Pensioenen overheidssector 41.62bn
  2. Evenwichtsdotatie - sociale zekerheid voor werknemers 18.50bn
  3. Globale rijkstoelage - sociale zekerheid voor werknemers 7.68bn
  4. Wederopbouw Garantiefonds 6.68bn
  5. Toelagen OCMW's recht op maatschappelijke integratie 4.98bn
  6. Gemeenschappelijke Gemeenschapscommissie 4.61bn
  7. Pensioenen HR-Rail 3.87bn
  8. Deelname van de Staat in het kapitaal van Infrabel met het oog op de financiering van de investeringen ten gunste van Infrabel 3.38bn
  9. Dotatie aan het Federaal Agentschap voor de opvang van Asielzoekers 2.73bn
  10. Federale dotatie aan de meergemeentepolitiezones en aan de gemeenten tot dekking van de meerkosten voortvloeiend uit de politiehervorming 2.71bn
  11. Deelname van de Staat in het kapitaal van de NMBS met oog op de financiering van de investeringen ten gunste van NMBS 2.54bn
  12. Bijdrage voor het binnenlands vervoer van reizigers met treinen van de gewone dienst ten gunste van de NMBS 2.12bn

and 604 more. Search a word of the name, or download the full list: CSV

Department

  1. FPS Social Security 78.15bn
  2. FPS Finance 14.55bn
  3. FPS Mobility and Transport 12.76bn
  4. PPS Social Integration 6.55bn
  5. FPS Home Affairs 5.57bn
  6. Federal Police 3.61bn
  7. FPS Economy 3.19bn
  8. FPS Policy and Support 3.03bn
  9. FPS Public Health 2.33bn
  10. FPS Foreign Affairs 1.57bn

and 8 more

Kind of transfer

  1. Overdrachten aan de socialezekerheidsinstellingen 79.72bn
  2. Overdrachten aan autonome instellingen 24.09bn
  3. Overdrachten aan lokale overheden 11.62bn
  4. Overdrachten aan bedrijven 8.27bn
  5. Overdrachten aan gewesten en gemeenschappen 8.19bn
  6. Overdrachten aan het buitenland 1.00bn
  7. Overdrachten aan gezinnen en vzw 690.4m

Conditions and calls are not in the register. The register itself: FPS BOSA, financial transfers of the federal government (opens the source's website)

By sector

  1. PPublic administration 115.82bn
  2. HTransport and storage 12.95bn
  3. NProfessional and technical services 1.08bn
  4. TOther services 538.8m
  5. OAdministrative and support services 480.9m
  6. SArts, sports and recreation 416.7m
  7. Sector not known 401.0m
  8. RHealth and social work 327.4m
  9. DEnergy 325.8m
  10. KTelecoms and IT 314.1m
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  1. QEducation 257.0m
  2. EWater and waste 148.7m
  3. VExtraterritorial organisations 129.6m
  4. FConstruction 121.0m
  5. CManufacturing 109.6m
  6. LFinance and insurance 96.4m
  7. GWholesale and retail trade 33.2m
  8. MReal estate 16.9m
  9. AAgriculture, forestry and fishing 9.7m
  10. IAccommodation and food service 3.8m
  11. JPublishing and media 425,038

The sector is the main activity in NACE-BEL 2025 per the KBO.

By region

  1. Brussels 123.28bn
  2. Wallonia 5.27bn
  3. Flanders 5.04bn
  4. Outside Belgium or unknown 967,260

A recipient counts in the province of its registered office.

Kind of organisation

  1. Public bodies 105.51bn
  2. Other legal forms 25.51bn
  3. Non-profits and foundations 1.64bn
  4. Companies 935.0m

The kind follows from the legal form in the KBO.

Method and sources

The register (2023 to 2025) holds 23,591 entries. 19,021 of them are shown. These are the recipients with an enterprise number that are legal entities. Not shown: 3,944 without an enterprise number, 626 with a number no longer (or never) in the open KBO data.

BOSA states no currency with its amounts; they are shown as published. Most transfers are filed under an establishment unit and linked to its enterprise.

The register at its source: FPS BOSA, financial transfers of the federal government (opens the source's website)

Flemish subsidies (Flemish government, subsidy register): Awarded and paid, per the year the register states the support for. Awarded and paid are two different amounts and are never added. Corrections appear as negative amounts in the register.

Wallonia-Brussels Federation (Wallonia-Brussels Federation, subsidy cadastre): Paid, per the year of the payment. The cadastre carries enterprise numbers only from 2021; payments from 2019 and 2020 cannot be linked to any company.

Federal transfers (FPS BOSA, financial transfers of the federal government): Amount as published, per the year of the transfer. BOSA states no currency with its amounts; they are shown as published. Most transfers are filed under an establishment unit and linked to its enterprise.

EU budget (European Commission, Financial Transparency System): Attributed share, per the budget year of the commitment. The register does not separate grants from procurement. Where the Commission publishes no split per beneficiary, the entry counts without an amount.

EU research (European Commission, CORDIS): EU contribution, per the project's start year. The contribution covers the whole project, dated by its start year; it is paid out over the project's life.

The registers do not count the same money. They hold awarded and paid subsidies, payments, invoiced transfers, attributed shares of EU commitments and contributions to research projects. So each register stands apart, never a total across registers.

Only legal entities with an enterprise number appear in the lists. Natural persons and sole traders are not shown, even where the register states their number. They do count in the register's coverage. Sector, province and kind of organisation come from the KBO.

The figures are as the register publishes them and are updated every night. Checked adds them up per recipient, year and programme, within one register. Last updated on 12-11-2026.

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