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Kela clarifies when flexible childcare allowance can overlap other benefits

Home care support can coexist where someone else provides care during work; sickness lasting over four weeks ends flexible allowance entitlement from the start of incapacity.

By Taxxa AI OyPublished 28 August 2026

Payroll & Labour

Kela clarifies that flexible childcare allowance can coexist with home care support when the child has no municipal early childhood education place and someone other than the allowance claimant looks after the child during their working hoursKela. Its guidance gives the example of a spouse caring for the child and claiming home care support themselves. This is a clarification of benefit combinations, with no new commencement date stated.

The distinction is who provides the care. A parent receiving home care support because they personally care for the child cannot also receive flexible childcare allowance for that periodKela. Kela also confirms that flexible childcare allowance can be combined with private day care allowanceKela.

Other exclusions concern benefits paid to the claimant. Flexible childcare allowance is unavailable while the claimant receives pregnancy or parental allowance, or partial childcare allowance for any child in the familyKela. That does not mean a second parent's parental allowance automatically prevents a claim: Kela expressly permits flexible childcare allowance while the other parent receives parental daily allowance for the same childKela.

Kela also specifies the consequence of longer sickness absence. If sick leave lasts more than four weeks, entitlement to flexible childcare allowance ends from the beginning of incapacityKela. Absences lasting no more than four weeks remain covered by its existing guidance on paid leave, sick leave, strikes and layoffsKela. Claimants must report a continuous absence exceeding four weeks to Kela, as well as changes in working hoursKela.

The underlying benefit is for a parent or other guardian of a child under three who participates in the child's care and actually resides in FinlandFinlex. Section 13 a covers employees, civil servants, appropriately pension-insured entrepreneurs and farmers, and grant recipients with the specified MYEL insuranceFinlex. The statutory working-time limits are assessed by average weekly hours, with a maximum of 30 hours or 80% of normal full-time hours in the sectorFinlex. Both parents may qualify in the same calendar month if their absences from work for childcare do not coincideKela.

For an employee's application, Kela requires an employer certificate showing all weekly working hours and the employer's contact detailsKela. The employer can send it through Kela's employer service. Benefit recipients should check the care arrangement and overlapping benefits when reporting changes.

Flexible childcare allowance is governed by section 13 a of Laki lasten kotihoidon ja yksityisen hoidon tuesta (1128/1996)Finlex.

Check overlapping benefits and care arrangements for flexible childcare allowance claims, and report changes in working hours or sickness absence exceeding four weeks to Kela.

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