- When am I en titled to parental allowance for a sick child?
- Who can get childcare allowance?
- Only one parent can receive the benefit at the same time
- Documents necessary to receive child benefit for sick children
- Child benefit for a child who fell ill abroad
You are en titled to Childcare Benefit if your child becomes seriously ill or is in hospital and you must look after him or her. As long as you work and are insured, ZUS will pay for the days off work that you devote to caring for the child.
When am I en titled to parental allowance for a sick child?
Child care allowance is granted when the need for personal care of the mother or father falls during the child's stay in hospital, and the need has been confirmed by a medical certificate. The decision about the necessity to care for a child is always made by the doctor treating the child, who takes into account his or her he alth condition when justifying the decision on temporary incapacity for work of one of the parents.
Who can get childcare allowance?
Nursing allowance is granted when a sick child is under 14 years of age. Older children are considered family members and are no longer en titled to this type of care. It should be noted that the length of the benefit period in the case of sick children does not depend on the type of disease or the children's disability. The purpose of the care allowance is not to create special opportunities for caring for disabled children, and the sickness insurance contribution from which the care allowance is financed has not been differentiated in any way and is paid in the same amount by all insured persons, hence the scope of insurance coverage guaranteed to individual persons should not be different.
Only one parent can receive the benefit at the same time
The right to care allowance in connection with the need to care for a child is granted to the child's mother and father equally, provided that both are covered by sickness insurance, but the allowance is paid only to one of them who applies in this regard. However, the carer's allowance cannot be granted to both parents at the same time, as granting it to one excludes the right of the other.
The care allowance for the parent of a child staying in hospital is granted for the period of leave from work due to the need to provide personal care, but not longer thanfor 60 days in a calendar year or until another family member can take care of the child.
Documents necessary to receive child benefit for sick children
In order to receive the care allowance for a sick child, you should prepare an appropriate statement for the Social Insurance Institution on a specially prepared print with the reference numberZUS Z-15 .
Child benefit for a child who fell ill abroad
If the child becomes ill abroad and the treatment takes place outside the country, you can also apply for the allowance. It is then necessary to provide a ZUS Z-15 form and a certificate from a foreign medical institution or a foreign doctor (containing the name of the foreign medical institution or the name and surname of the doctor), with the date of issue and signature, and specifying the starting and ending date of the parent's incapacity for work. The certificate does not have to be translated into Polish, if it was issued in the territory of the EU, in one of the EFTA Member States and the European Economic Area or the Swiss Confederation, as well as states-parties to international agreements in the field of social security.
Legal basis: Act on cash benefits from social insurance in the event of sickness and maternity (Journal of Laws of 2010, No. 77, item 512, as amended)