Early Childhood Education Fees and Allowances
Introduction
The highest fee charged for the family's youngest child is €295 per month, and then 40% of the full-time care fee of the youngest child for the second child (at most €118 per month) and 20% for the other children in the family (at most €59 per month).
The client fee is charged maximum of 11 months per year (1.8.-31.7.). July is free of charge provided that the child´s early childhood education has begun at the latest on on September of the preceding year. The family must inform the authorities if the child has participated in early childhood education of another municipality.
Summer season fees: if the child started in early childhood education and care at the latest by 30 September, July will be free-of-charge for the guardians. If the children started in early childhood education and care after this date, a half a month's fee will also be charged for July. In such cases, the child must be absent from the early childhood education and care for the whole calendar month even if the month starts in the middle of the week.
If the child is in early childhood education and care even for one day in July, the fee for the month will be charged in full.
If the child is at least two months away from early childhood education and care during the summer season, a care place guarantee can be applied.
Early childhood education’s billing in spring 2023 / bills sent retroactively
Billing early childhood education clients through the VaSa system has begun. Due to the change, unbilled bills will be sent to the families at approximately 3-week intervals, so that we can assume normal billing schedule by the beginning of summer. Some of the spring months will have two bills coming due, while some will only have one.
In the future, early childhood education’s client fees will be billed once a month retrospectively. The bill for the previous month will always arrive in the middle of the following month, and the due date will be at the end of the month.
Gross income limits
Customer fees based on the child's early childhood education time
Customer fees based on the child`s early childhood education time related to pre-primary education
Filling Income Declaration
A child’s customer payment or value of the service voucher in early childhood education is determined by the family’s income. Families are asked to return the income declaration form when the child starts in early childhood education as well as when the family’s income changes. In addition, early childhood education’s customer payments are checked yearly.
When a family accepts their child’s early childhood education placement or a service voucher, the guardian must return the income declaration form and receipts in paper. If a guardian accepts the maximum payment, they must inform of their decision by returning an income declaration form on paper, points 1-6 filled in.
If the customer payment for early childhood education has been based on wrongful information given by the customer, the payment can be corrected retroactively for the last year. If receipts of income are missing, the maximum payment for early childhood education will be charged.
The VaSa service will be updated on May 29th 2023 about from 20.00 to 21.00. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Checking Customer Payments
Early childhood education’s customer payments are checked annually. Payments are also checked if there are changes to the family’s size, gross income (any changes of at least 10% are checked), or the child’s early childhood education times. The family has the responsibility of notifying of any changes regarding the family’s income or size to the early childhood education customer payments. Payments are also checked if there are changes to the Customer Payment Act or city of Vantaa’s decisions regarding customer payments.
Correcting the Customer Payment and Claim for a Revised Decision
Before making a written claim for a revised decision to the Education and Learning Committee, we ask you to contact the customer payment preparing service secretaries via email at varhaiskasvatuksen.asiakasmaksut@vantaa.fi. Correction to the payment can mainly be done as a normal payment correction without a claim for a revised decision.
Income Considered in Determining Customer Payment or Service Voucher Value
A child’s customer payment or service voucher value is determined according to the income of the parent or other guardian living in the same household as well as their partner or a person living in marriage-like conditions. The customer payment of a child in joint custody is determined by the primary custodial parent’s family size and their family’s income. Also the child’s own income effects the customer payment or service voucher value paid for them.
The paternity leave and early childhood education
Absence during paternity leave is free of charge for the child who said paternity leave is regarding. According to the Early Childhood Education Act, a child cannot attend early childhood education during paternity leave. Family’s other children can attend early childhood education during the paternity leave. If the family’s other children are absent from early childhood education, their absence is not free of charge.
Absence based on paternity leave must be reported to the location of the early childhood education at the latest 14 days (2 weeks) before its planned starting date.
Absence can be reported with “Child’s absence during paternity leave” -form and Kela’s paternity allowance decision must be delivered as attachment.
Additional information on paternity leave from Kela’s website
Ilmoitus lapsen poissaolosta isyysvapaan ajalla(pdf, 78.47 KB)Child home care allowance
Home care allowance can be applied by a family who’s under 3-year-old child is reared at home. Home care allowance cannot be paid for a child that is in municipal early childhood education.
Read more about applying for home care allowance from Kela’s website
Private day care allowance
Private early childhood education’s payments are determined by the day care’s decision on if they use service vouchers or private child-care allowance.
In a day care centre using service vouchers the payment can be at most 30 euros more than municipal early childhood education’s customer payment. The service voucher’s value is determined by the family’s income so the family must deliver the income declaration form with its attachments.
Day care centres, group family day care or family day care child minder using private child-care allowance can determine their own customer payment. Family applies for private child-care allowance from Kela.
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Billing and payments regarding early childhood education
Regarding customer payments and support, its reviews and other additional payment questions, you can contact the early childhood cares customer payment and billing service.