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certifying the expected birth of a child, which
you must present to your employer. A father
has a right to be granted 14 days additional
childcare leave during the pregnancy leave
of the mother or within two months after the
birth of the child.
Pregnant women receive health insurance
from the 12 th week of pregnancy. If you are
not insured before pregnancy, you should
go to the local department of the EHIF with
your passport and a doctor’s note certifying
pregnancy.
The parental benefit is paid to the parent that
stays at home with the child. The parental
benefit is paid after the end of the maternity
benefit. Together the maternity benefit and
the parental benefit are paid as of January
2006 for a period of 455 days. Non-working
parents receive the parental benefit for 14
months from childbirth. Fathers have a right
to parental benefits starting from 6 months
after the birth of the child. The amount of the
benefit depends on the parent’s income in
the previous calendar year that is calculated
on the basis of the social taxes paid in
Estonia. Those, who did not receive any
taxable income in Estonia in the previous
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calendar year, receive the parental benefit
according to the monthly rate of the benefit.
In the year 2007 the monthly rate for parental
benefit is 2690 EEk. The maximum amount of
parental benefit that is paid in one month is
21 624 EEk in 2007.
A parent who takes a child care vacation and
is raising children under the age of 3 receives
a child-care allowance.
A monthly child allowance of 300 EEk is paid
to one of the parents of a child under the age
of 16, and in case the child continues his/her
studies, the child allowance is paid until the
child’s 19th birthday.
At the beginning of each school year, school
support in the amount of 450 EEk is paid
for children who attend school. Additional
allowances are paid to families with three or
more children.
Apart from the maternity benefit, these
benefits are paid by the social Insurance
Board. Most of these benefits are available
to you even if your children live in a different
EU country.