Early childhood education's client fees

Early childhood education's client fees are based on legislation. The fee is based on the family size, gross income, and the extent of the child’s need for early childhood education. The client fees are calculated as a percentage of a family's gross income.

When calculating the client fee, the income limit, compliant with the Act of Early Childhood Education Client Fees, will be deducted from the family’s gross income. The biggest fee for the youngest child in the family is €311/month; for the second, 40% (at max. €124/month); and for the other children in the family, 20% (at max. €62/month) of the full-time early childhood education for the youngest child.

A monthly fee will be charged for at max. eleven (11) calendar months per operating year (August 1 - July 31). In municipal early childhood education, July is a free-of-charge month, provided that the child's early childhood education has started no later than the previous year's September.

A family moving to Vantaa shall notify—by email to: varhaiskasvatuksen.asiakasmaksut@vantaa.fi—if their child has been in municipal early childhood education in another municipality at the beginning of the operating year. In service voucher daycare centers, the fee cannot be more than €30 more than the fee in municipal day care.

Making an income statement

The value of the child’s early childhood education's client fee or the value of the service voucher is determined on the basis of the family’s gross income. We kindly ask all families to make an income statement through the VaSa service when their child begins attending early childhood education. You must also make an income statement if the family's combined income changes by at least 10%, as well as if there are changes in the family size.

If the guardian accepts the maximum fee, they must inform about it on the VaSa service’s online income statement form or by returning the paper income-statement form.

Filling in the income statement on the VaSa service(pdf, 761.64 KB) Graphical instructions for filling in the income statement.

Print the income statement form out here if you have to deliver it on paper:

Income statement for determining and revising early childhood education fee (523040e)(pdf, 224.16 KB) Determining early childhood education fee, Entrepreneur (523044e)(pdf, 111.61 KB)

If you do not provide the income statement, the maximum fee will be charged for your early childhood education service. Fees will also be revised if there are changes in the Client Fee Act or in the decisions on the City of Vantaa's customer fees. When making index adjustments compliant with the Client Fee Act, the automated decision-making process can be applied (committee decision).

Decision to implement the automatic decision-making procedure(pdf, 187.67 KB)

If the decision on daycare fee is based on faulty data given by the client, the fee can be adjusted retroactively for at maximum one year. Failing to deliver an income statement or income documentation is no grounds for adjusting the client fee.

The guardian shall make an income statement on the VaSa service. On the income statement form you can notify that you have agreed to pay the highest fee, or the lowest value of the service voucher, or announce your income information. Log in the VaSa service here.

If the guardian wants the client fee or value of the service voucher to be specified on the basis of their income data, they must also attach electronic documentation on the income statement form. If the guardian and their spouse allow their income data to be checked from the Tulorekisteri (Incomes Register), they do not have to separately provide income data or documentation as regards salary information and benefits, provided that the income data can be checked from the Incomes Register. An income statement must always be submitted.

Read more about using the Incomes Register below.

Filling in the income statement on the VaSa service(pdf, 761.64 KB) Graphical instructions for filling in the income statement.

Data on taxable and non-taxable income to be delivered:

Pay statement specifying the accruals over the present and the previous year, including holiday bonus. If there is no account for holiday bonus, 5% will be added to the gross monthly income.
Other regular income (such as meeting allowances, fringe benefits and daily allowances)
Return on capital or other assets such as income from interests, dividends and rents
If students work in addition to studying, they shall provide pay statements
Sickness allowance, parent's allowance, flexible care allowance, partial care allowance (Kela decision must be attached attached)
Earnings-related daily unemployment benefit, unemployment benefit, adjusted daily allowance
Daily allowance and annuity of accident insurance
Pensions (e.g. child, guardians' retirement, work, family or national pension)
Maintenance payments/allowances for children in early childhood education, including a statement if you do not receive maintenance payment/allowance

Data on income deductions, for example:

Receipts of child support paid or maintenance agreement
Traditional life annuity contracts.

Revising client fees

When it is time to revise your child’s early childhood education's client fee or the value of the service voucher, you will receive an income-statement request on the VaSa service. You have two weeks to respond to the income statement request. You will find instructions for filling out the income statement form on this page under “Filling out the income statement form on the VaSa service.”

If you cannot make the income statement on the VaSa service, you can fill out a paper income statement form. You can deliver the income statement form and appendices to it to Vantaa-info or mail it to: Vantaan kaupunki, Talouspalvelut, PL 313, 01030 Vantaan kaupunki.

If you fail to deliver the income statement by the deadline, your early childhood education's client fee will be based on the highest early childhood education fee or on the lowest value of the service voucher. An income statement delivered after the deadline will be revised as of the beginning of the next calendar month.

Frequently asked questions

A child’s vacation will not automatically entitle you to compensation. If the child has been on vacation for part of a month, but present at the daycare center for part of the month, an invoice for the entire month will be sent. If your child has been absent for an entire calendar month, you will be invoiced for half a month. You can contact your child’s early childhood education place where your child’s presence and absence entries can be checked. Read more on absences affecting the fee on this page under “Absences affecting invoicing.”

If your child’s early childhood education has terminated in the middle of a calendar month, for example, on October 20, you will receive an early childhood education invoice for October 1 - 19. If your child did not attend early childhood education at all during the previous month, contact your child's previous early childhood education place, so that the invoice can be corrected.

Even though you have given your permission for us to use the Incomes Register, you must still make an income statement. Not all forms of income can be checked from the Incomes Register, for example, rental income, dividend income, and some corporate revenues.

In order for us to ensure that we account for all taxable earned income and capital gain, as well as non-taxable income, when determining the early childhood education's client fee, we always need an income statement.

You do not have to attach to the income statement form documentation on income that can be checked from the Incomes Register. If you do not provide an income statement, your early childhood education's client fee is always based on the highest payment category or the lowest value of the service voucher.

An extract from the Incomes Register cannot be accepted as income documentation, because the extract does not itemize different types of income. The guardian and the guardian’s spouse living in the same address and whose income affects the household’s early childhood education fee can give their consent to using the Incomes Register on the VaSa service under “Permissions.”

Income accounted for when determining the customer fee or the value of the service voucher

The child’s client fee or the value of the service voucher is based on the income of the parent or other guardian as well as their spouse living in the same household under circumstances comparable with marriage. When parents have joint custody, the child's customer fee is based on the resident parent's family size and income. Furthermore, the child's own income affects the amount of the client fee or the value of the service voucher.

Taxable earned income and capital gain, as well as non-taxable income
Salary income from both main income and side income.
Holiday bonus. If this documentation is lacking, 5% will be added to the monthly income
Forestry income
Severance pay
Fringe benefits
Domestic and foreign daily allowances
Mileage allowances
Sickness allowance
Rehabilitation allowance
Compensations and daily allowances paid on the basis of accident insurance
Unemployment, earnings-related unemployment daily allowance
Labor market subsidy
Adult education subsidy
Study grant / financial aid for students
Caregiver allowance
National pension, family pension
Maintenance payment and child maintenance allowance for children in early childhood education
Pregnancy allowance
Parental allowance
Home care allowance
Special care allowance
Flexible care supplement
Mobility allowance
Grants and stipends
Capital gain, interest, dividend, forestry, and rental income, repair costs, and capital expenditure charge will not be deducted, whereas maintenance fee will be deducted.
Start-up money
Summer job and internship
Other revenues

Gross income limits as of August 1, 2024

When determining family size, the following are accounted for: guardians (spouses or cohabitants living in the same household), as well as minor children of them both living in the same household.

The family has two guardians and two children; both the children attend municipal early childhood education.

The family's combined gross income: €6 500/month

Early childhood education's client fee: €6 500 (income) – €5 956 (income limit) = €544

Of income exceeding the income limit is calculated 10.7% as the early childhood education's client fee = 10.7% of €544 = €58.

The family's early childhood education's client fees per child are: (youngest) child €58/month + second child €0/month. Altogether €58/month.

Client fees based on the child’s early childhood education hours as of August 1, 2024

Client fees in early childhood education supplementing pre-primary education as of August 1, 2024

According to the Basic Education Act, pre-primary education is free, but early childhood education connected with it is chargeable.

Claim for claim for a revised decision

Before submitting a written claim for a revised decision to the Education and Learning Committee, we ask you to contact Early childhood education's client fees: varhaiskasvatuksen.asiakasmaksut@vantaa.fi. It is usually possible to verify the amount of early childhood education's client fees or the value of the service voucher by making a new income statement.

Absences affecting invoicing

If the child is absent from early childhood education due to illness on at least eleven (11) operating days of a calendar month, half of the monthly fee will be charged. If the child is absent from early childhood education due to illness on all the operating days of a calendar month, no fee will be charged, If the child is absent from early childhood education on all the operating days of a calendar month due to reason(s) other than illness, half of the monthly fee will be charged.

Preconditions for early childhood education's place guarantee

Early childhood education is suspended without a break for at least two (2) months and at max. two (2) years.
The child attended early childhood education for at least 4 months before suspending it.
A written agreement on suspending early childhood education will be made with the director of the daycare center in question at least a month before suspension.
The family notifies in writing before the termination of the contractual period whether the child returns to daycare or not.
Early childhood education’s place guarantee is free of charge for the family.

Contacts related to client fees and invoicing

Contact early childhood education's client fees and invoicing service whenever you have questions about determining early childhood education's client fees and the value of the service voucher:

Phone service, tel. 09 8392 2004, Mon-Fri at 9:00 - 11:30. When calling the phone service, you can choose whether you need help with payment decisions, value decisions, or with invoicing-related issues.
Email service
- Inquiries about payment or value decisions: varhaiskasvatuksen.asiakasmaksut@vantaa.fi. This email is not protected, so sending income data by email is the client’s own responsibility.
- Inquiries about paying invoices, for example, postponing of due dates and issues related to collecting: myyntilaskut@vantaa.fi.

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