Granting and disbursement of State aid to children with coeliac disease

Process description

1. Service requests
   The aid must be requested within 12 months of the issue of the medical certificate. When requesting aid at a later date, it shall only be granted for the preceding 12 months before the date of application for the aid.
   
   In order to request the aid, a specific form of application addressed to the SAA must be completed.
   May submit a submission:
   • electronically - using the official electronic address (e-address) or e-mail (the application must be signed with a secure electronic signature containing the time stamp);
   • on-site (if requested for service, a personal identification document (passport or ID card) must be produced);
   • by post.
   The application may be submitted to any VSAA customer service centre.
   
   After reaching the age of 18, a statement of a foreign educational institution shall be submitted to the applicant for support for a child who is studying abroad. The document issued by a foreign educational institution must contain information that the person to whom it was issued is trained in a general education or vocational education institution or higher education day department (full-time) during the period specified in the document. The document issued by a foreign education institution must be accompanied by a translation and must be legalised. If the document was issued in the European Union, the European Economic Area State or the Swiss Confederation, as well as in the countries of the agreement, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, it is not necessary to legalise it.
   
   The submission shall indicate the preferred method of receiving the decision.

2. Receipt of services

   If the official electronic address account (hereinafter the e-address) is activated, the decision will be sent by the SSIA to the e-address regardless of how the application is submitted.

   If the e-address is not enabled and:

   • completed for e-submission on portal Latvija.gov.lv, the decision will be available for viewing on portal Latvija.gov.lv in the “SSIA information and services” e-service under the “logged-in services” section;

   • the application has been submitted to the SSIA in person, electronically (signed with a secure electronic signature) or sent by post - the decision may be received according to the type of receipt of the decision indicated in the application: on the portal, Latvija.gov.lv, face-to-face, or by post

   At the choice of the recipient, the SSIA shall transfer the service to the account of the Latvian credit institution or postal payment system.