Child benefits in Norway. What's worth knowing? Did you know that if you work in Norway or receive Norwegian benefits, you can also receive benefits for your children living in Poland? Family, care and parental benefits. Thanks to them, you can earn up to several dozen crowns a month. Condition: you must have full parental rights? What else do you need to know about these benefits?
Child benefits in Norway. Family allowance in Norway
A benefit paid for a child from birth to the age of 18. The amount of support: NOK 1054, and from September 2020, for a child up to 6 years old, it was increased to NOK 1354. However, you can receive this benefit only if the mother living in Poland is unemployed and without the right to unemployment benefit. Otherwise, assistance must be provided by the country where the children permanently live.
Care allowance. What conditions for the award?
Child benefits in Norway. Let us now turn to the care allowance. It is a financial allowance for children between 13 and 23 months of age. However, you cannot apply for this benefit if the child is enrolled in a public or private nursery / kindergarten with a subsidy. The amount of the allowance is NOK 7500.
What documents to prepare - family and care allowance.
Documents that must be presented when applying for family or care allowance are:
- certificate of payment of contributions Norway under an employment contract or benefit,
- confirmation of membership in the insurance system for a minimum of 5 years,
- child's birth certificate,
- marriage certificate,
- registration of stay,
- annual statements of income from employers,
- salary statements for the current tax year,
- ID document scan.
What about paternity allowance?
Child benefits in Norway. You are a young father. The paternity allowance is noteworthy. Although here, in contrast to other benefits, the requirements are slightly more. Conditions for granting:
- income in Norway in the amount of at least 0,5 of the G rate, i.e. NOK 50,
- working at least 6 out of the last 10 months,
- the child's mother must complete at least 75% of full-time or full-time study (return to work should take place in the 7th week after the birth of the child).
To sum up - there are many possibilities. It's worth using them.
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