Published: 21.01.2021.
Updated: 17.12.2021.
Translated by machine translator

A child's parent (also a guardian or another person who, in accordance with the decision of the Orphan's Court, is caring for a child) who is a worker or self-employed, if he or she cannot come into employment because of the care of a sick child and loses income derived from employment or from economic activity, and to whom the doctor has issued a sick-leave sheet B in connection with a sick child home or hospital care.

If, for any objective reason, the sick child cannot be groomed by the parents of the child, the doctor may also issue a sick-leave sheet B for the care of a sick child to the grandparent, adult brother or sister, the parent spouse. . They are also entitled to sickness benefits if they are employed (workers or self-employed).

The doctor shall issue the sick certificate B regarding the care of a sick child from the first day of the child's illness.

Sickness benefits may be obtained if a sick child under 14 years of age is being groomed (not reached 14 years of age).

If a child has been diagnosed with severe illness, the sickness allowance may be obtained if a child under 18 years of age is groomed. . These are cases where:

 

 

 

 

 

  • In issuing an opinion, the doctor consilia of the State SIA “Children's Clinical University Hospital” has determined the need for the continued presence of the parent due to a severe illness, which requires the child to have long-term treatment in a hospital medical facility;
  • care allowance for a child with disabilities has been granted for the child.

 

 

The opinion of the doctor's consyria shall be received by the State Social Insurance Agency (VSAA) electronically and the parent shall not be required to submit this document when requesting sickness benefits. . The SAA shall also have at its disposal information on the child for whom the child's disability care allowance has been granted.

In determining the amount of the sickness allowance, the average salary of the insurance contribution calculated for the parent (or the person to whom the sick sheet B has been issued) shall be taken into account. .

If a child under 14 years of age has become ill, the doctor shall, from the first day of the child's illness, issue to the parent a sick sick certificate B with a cause of “sick child care” or “sick child care hospital” on the basis of which the SSIA grants and pays the sickness allowance for the time:

 

  • from the 1 st day of the child's disease to the 14 th day, if the sick child was nursed at home,
  • from the 1 st day of the child's disease to the 21 st day, if the child has been kept in a hospital for any part of the period,
  • for the period from day 1 to day 30 of sickness, if the child has been groomed due to an injury associated with a bone fracture (this condition is in effect that the first day of illness due to bone fracture injuries is a date of 01.01.2021. or later).

 

 

Sickness allowance in the care of a severely ill child

1. If a child under 18 years of age who has been diagnosed with severe illness and has issued an opinion regarding the need for the continued presence of the parent in addition to the incapacity sheet B, the SAA shall grant and pay the sickness allowance for the duration:

  • in the case of a child's continuous illness, the term specified by the doctor's consyria, which at one time cannot exceed a period of 3 months. . A total of not more than 26 weeks (half a year) from the first day of the child's illness;
  • in the event of a child suffering from breaks, not exceeding 3 years over a period of 5 years. 

 

 

Doctor consilia may prescribe the need for an uninterrupted presence of the parent at a time of not more than 3 months. . In cases where treatment is very long-term and the child needs a parent, 2 opinions may be issued for one continuous case. I.

If the opinion of the Considium of Doctors is not issued, the right to sickness benefits for the care of a sick child shall be determined in general order, i.e. as in cases where a child under 14 years of age is being groomed.

2. In the case of a child under 18 years of age for which a child with disabilities care allowance has been granted, the sickness allowance shall be granted and paid as follows:

 

  • in the case of a continuous illness of a child, not longer than 26 weeks (half-year), counting from the first day of the child's illness;
  • in the event of a child suffering from breaks, not exceeding 3 years over a period of 5 years.

 

 

Therefore, if the National Commission of the Physicians for Health and Capability Assessment of a Child has determined the need for special care on the basis of which a child's disability care allowance has been granted, it is not necessary for the granting of sickness benefits to have a medical consylia opinion.

In both cases, the conditions regarding the payment of sickness benefits shall apply, irrespective of whether the child is accompanied by one parent (person) throughout the sick period, or several individuals in succession, as well as regardless of the cause of the disease.