Changes to the Espoo supplement included in child home care allowance: siblings of a child cared for at home can participate in early childhood education

You can receive child home care allowance if your youngest child is under 3 years of age and does not attend early childhood education and you no longer receive parental allowance for the child. You can apply for child home care allowance from Kela.

Child home care allowance paid for the youngest child in the family includes the following:

• care allowance
• Espoo supplement (i.e. municipal supplement)
• possible care supplement, which is based on the family’s total income.

You can also receive the care allowance included in child home care allowance for other siblings under school age who do not attend early childhood education.

The Espoo supplement is a municipal supplement to the child home care allowance intended for families who live in Espoo.

The Espoo supplement, EUR 160 per month, is paid for the youngest child in the family aged under 18 months. Nowadays, families are entitled to the Espoo supplement even if their other children attend early childhood education.

You do not have to apply for the Espoo supplement separately if you have applied for child home care allowance from Kela. Kela will automatically issue a decision on the Espoo supplement if you are entitled to it. Kela pays the child home care allowance including any supplements to the family.

More information on child home care allowance and how to apply for it is available on Kela’s website.(external link, opens in a new window)

Do you work with families from different cultures? Print the information below for distribution to your clients. The notice has been translated into nine different languages: Finnish, Swedish, English, Albanian, Arabic, Dari, Persian, Somali, and Russian.