Customer fees

Municipal early childhood education customer fees apply to children who are in municipal daycare or family daycare. If the child is in a private family day care or a private kindergarten, the private service provider charges a customer fee.

In municipal early childhood education and service vouchers, the payment per child is determined according to the size of the family, income and the need for the service and is between 0 and 311 euros per month. As a rule, the payment is determined from the accumulated income for the year, taking vacation money into account. In order to determine the deductible portion of the customer fee or service voucher, the family must submit a statement of their gross income, otherwise the highest fee will be charged for the service. You can calculate your personal fee estimate with the early childhood education fee calculator. In addition to the deductible portion of the service voucher, the daycare can charge an additional fee directly from the customer of 0-75 euros per month.

In municipal early childhood education, income information must be submitted by the 5th day of the month following the start of care. Service voucher customers must submit income information before starting the treatment. In addition, the payment is checked for all customers every year in August, when all customers must submit the latest income information.

In municipal early childhood education, the fee is charged as a monthly fee, however for a maximum of eleven months during the operating year. In municipal early childhood education, July is free of charge if the child's care relationship started before the first day of September of the previous year.

Customer fees for early childhood education are based on the Act on customer fees for early childhood education 1503/2016 § 11).

Income that is not taken into account when determining the payment:

• Child benefit
• Benefits according to the Disability Benefits Act (570/2007): child care allowance, disability allowance or pensioner's care allowance
• Child increase according to the National Pension Act (568/2007).
• Children's home care support
• Housing benefit
• Earned income is replaced by reasonable per diems or travel and accommodation allowances
• Medical care and examination expenses paid on the basis of accident insurance
• Military allowance, frontal allowance
• Maternity benefits
• Study allowance, adult education allowance paid by the Employment Fund, housing allowance for study allowance
• Operating allowance and travel allowance to be paid as income support
• Grants and other similar grants for studies
• Maintenance allowance in accordance with the Act on Rehabilitation Benefits and Rehabilitation Cash Benefits of the National Pension Service (566/2005)
• Reimbursement of expenses in accordance with the Act on Public Employment and Business Services (916/2012)
• Reimbursements for the costs of family care

The section of the law is the so-called exclusive, i.e. all other income is taken into account when determining the payment.