Temporary parental benefit for care of children [Tillfällig föräldrapenning vid vård av barn]

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1 Temporary parental for care of children [Tillfällig föräldrapenning vid vård av barn] Children are often ill. This is what temporary parental is for. It compensates you when you need to be off work to look after a sick child. Klicka här, skriv ev. Undertitel You can also receive when the person who usually looks after your child is ill. You can receive temporary parental for children under the age of 12. Special rules apply for children who are younger than 240 days. Unlike ordinary parental, temporary parental can be transferred to someone other than a parent in certain cases. When is temporary parental available? [När kan man få tillfällig föräldrapenning?] You can obtain temporary parental when you stay away from work to look after a child when: The child is ill or contagious. The ordinary carer is ill or contagious. The ordinary carer is the person who normally takes care of the child while you are working, for example, another parent, a childminder or a relative. The other parent must accompany another of the family s children to a doctor. You are going to visit the child health clinic [barnavårdscentralen] or another child health facility such as a dentist or the child and adolescent psychiatry clinic (BUP). You can also receive temporary parental when you, as parent, visit an institution with a sick or disabled child, such as habilitation, special school or the like. Furthermore, you can receive temporary parental to take part in a course arranged by a hospital principal, for example, the county council. You cannot receive temporary parental for care of a child if you are at home with the child because the pre-school or school is closed. How many days can I draw? [Hur många dagar kan jag ta ut?] Parents can receive temporary parental for at most 120 days per child and year. However, after 60 days, you can no longer receive in the event of the illness or contagion of the ordinary carer. 1 (5)

2 You can receive temporary parental for part of the working day [Du kan få tillfällig föräldrapenning för en del av arbetsdagen] You can draw temporary for a full, three-quarter, half, a quarter or an eighth of a day. Childcare allowance [Vårdbidrag] and temporary parental [Vårdbidrag och tillfällig föräldrapenning] If you receive childcare allowance for the child, you cannot receive temporary parental for the same care and supervision requirement that you already receive childcare allowance for. Who is eligible for temporary parental? [Vem kan få tillfällig föräldrapenning?] Parents of children under the age of 12 can receive temporary parental. Temporary parental can also be paid to the person who lives with a parent a foster home parent (previously foster parent) the person or persons who receive a child with a view to adoption another person who has legal custody of the child. Can another person receive to look after my child? [Kan någon annan få ersättning för att ta hand om mitt barn] If neither you nor the other parent is able or wishes to stay home from work when the child is ill or the ordinary carer is ill, you can transfer the temporary parental to another person who stays away from work to look after the child. This means that you continue to work while someone else the to be off work and look after the child. If you want to transfer the temporary parental, you or the person you transfer the to must inform us of this at the time of notification. The person who looks after the child will then receive a Swedish form: Tillfällig föräldrapenning vid överlåtelse [ Transfer of temporary parental ]. This should be completed both by the person who requests and by the parent. If you fall ill [Om du blir sjuk] If you fall ill at the same time as the child or the child s ordinary carer and can therefore neither work nor take care of the child, Försäkringskassan [the Swedish Social Insurance Agency] can decide that another person who stays away from work is entitled to temporary parental to care for your child. You must, of course, have consented to this. 2 (5)

3 There are also some situations when another person can receive temporary parental to take care of your child when you are ill even if you would not have worked then. This is called extended parental and is mainly intended for lone parents. Extended parental can be paid until the child turns three. There is no demand that the child should also be ill. How much temporary parental can you receive? [Hur mycket får man i tillfällig föräldrapenning?] Temporary parental gives you just under 80 per cent of your sickness qualifying income [sjukpenninggrundande inkomst]. If you are employed or unemployed [Om du är anställd eller arbetslös] If you are employed, is calculated on the basis of your annual working time in days or hours. If you are unemployed, your will be calculated per calendar day, accordingly your sickness qualifying income divided by 365. If you are self-employed [Om du är egen företagare] If you are self-employed, your sickness qualifying income is divided by 260, and your daily is then calculated on the basis of that amount. You can receive temporary parental for at most five days during a seven-day period. This is the case regardless of extent, i.e. regardless of whether you draw full or decide to draw for part of a day. The seven-day period is not a calendar week but is calculated from the first day for which you request temporary parental and extends six days back in time. This normally does not matter if you work a five-day week. However, if you have other working hours, it may mean in certain cases that you cannot receive temporary parental for a day on which you would have worked. Example [Exempel] s son falls ill and he requests temporary parental for Monday and Tuesday. The boy feels better on Wednesday and returns to school. However, he is ill again on Thursday. stays at home and requests temporary parental. can now receive temporary parental for Friday and for Saturday as well but not for Sunday as he will then have already had temporary parental for five days during a sevenday period. He can then receive temporary parental again on Monday and Tuesday the following week. However, on Wednesday he will reach the five-day threshold again and cannot receive temporary parental. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday F r i d a g Saturday Sunday Monday Tues- Wed- 3 (5)

4 day nesday works is at home but no is at home but no How to apply for temporary parental [Hur gör man för att få tillfällig föräldrapenning?] You must notify that you wish to receive temporary parental, at the latest by the same day that you wish to receive for. You can notify this and request directly at To do this, you will need an electronic ID, which you download from your bank on the Internet. You can also notify by calling or sending a text message TFP and your personal ID no. followed by the child s personal ID no. to When notification has been received by Försäkringskassan, you will be sent a form to be filled in and returned to us. Certain employers make automatic notification for you. However, you must check the arrangements at your workplace yourself. Certificate on the child s absence from pre-school or school You must have a certificate after seven days [Efter sju dagar måste du ha intyg] If the child is ill or contagious for a longer period of time than seven days, you must submit a certificate from a doctor or nurse from the eighth day that the child is ill. The first day is considered as the first day when you or the other parent draws temporary parental. The days when you do not draw temporary parental, for example Saturdays and Sundays are also included in the seven days. If the ordinary carer is ill, this should also be certified by a certificate or statement from a doctor from and including the eighth day. You can replace parental [föräldrapenning] by temporary parental if your child is in hospital [Du kan byta föräldrapenning mot tillfällig föräldrapenning om barnet vårdas på sjukhus] If you are on parental leave and the child is being cared for in hospital, you can exchange ordinary parental for temporary parental. In this way, you save 4 (5)

5 the ordinary parental days. You can do this in the same way even if another child than the child you draw parental for is being cared for in hospital. Special rules for children younger than eight months (240 days) [Speciella regler för barn yngre än åtta månader (240 dagar)] You can only receive temporary parental for children younger than eight months (240 days) if the child has been admitted to hospital or if the child has a permanent day care place and you need to stay at home from work to look after the child. This means, for example, that if a parent who is at home with the child is so ill that he or she cannot take care of the child that the other parent cannot draw temporary parental to look after the child. However, the other parent can draw ordinary parental. Other special needs [Andra speciella behov] There are also some situations in the case of a sick or disabled child when you can receive temporary parental even if the child is younger than 240 days. This is the case, for instance, if you visit an institution, for example, habilitation, special school or if you participate in a course arranged by a hospital principal, for example, the county council. In certain cases, you can also receive parental for older children. You can obtain more information from our customer centre at The fact sheet is not a legal text on the topic. Försäkringskassan checks [Försäkringskassan kontrollerar] Försäkringskassan checks the information you provide such as income, absence from work, civil status or where you live. We exchange information with other authorities and match data from, among others, the National Board of Student Aid [CSN], the unemployment funds and the Tax Agency [Skatteverket]. 5 (5)