State family allowances are paid:
- to permanent residents of Estonia
- to aliens who hold a temporary residence permit.
The family allowances paid on a monthly basis include the following:
- child allowance
- single parent’s child allowance
- foster care allowance
- allowance for a family with many children.
Single family allowances include the following:
- childbirth allowance
- adoption allowance.
For the period of a parent’s conscription or alternative service, the conscript’s child allowance is paid which can be applied for with national family allowances.
The state pays child allowance to all children until they turn 19 years of age. After that the allowance is paid to children without secondary education who continue their studies, until they finish school, or until the end of that schoolyear during which they turn 19 years of age.
No application is required for receiving family benefits – if you have registered the birth of your child in the Population Register, you will find a benefits offer in the self service portal of Social Insurance Board within a week.
Please check that your e-mail address in the self service portal of Social Insurance Board is correct – a notification of an offer will be sent to your e-mail address.
If your family is entitled to family benefits for another reason – for example, you and your family have moved to Estonia from abroad, you have adopted a child, you have become a guardian or ohter –, please contact the Social Insurance Board for an offer through the self service portal or by e-mail at [email protected].
Read also article "Registration of birth and choosing a name" in State Portal.
Mothers working under an employment contract or a public service contract can apply for maternity benefits and the accompanying maternity leave of up to 100 calendar days. Unemployed mothers can apply for maternity benefits for a total of 30 calendar days from the birth of the child.
The father, the partner of the mother, or one parent of the same sex who is not the mother of the child may receive parental benefit and the accompanying paternity leave of up to 30 calendar days, which can be used from 30 days before the expected date of birth of the child until the child reaches the age of three.
Family allowance, parental benefit, maintenance allowance are paid 8th of each month. If the date of the bank transfer falls on a national holiday or on a day off, the deadline for payment shall be the day preceding the day off.
If you have any questions about family and children's allowances, call the information line of the National Social Insurance Board at (+372) 612 1360 or write an e-mail to [email protected].
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Services
- Applications I have submitted to the Social Insurance Board
- Changing my bank account with the Social Insurance Board
- My pension, allowance, benefits
- Registering the birth of a child in the e-population register
- Self service portal of Social Insurance Board