4 Parental benefits

Parental benefits are granted in the following forms:

• parental benefit to take care of a child in connection with the birth or adoption of a child and

• temporary parental benefit in special situations in which a person refrains from doctoral studies in order to take care of a child or in connection with the death of a child and

• parental benefit for care of a child during a continuous period of at most 30 days.

These parental benefits apply only to the insured doctoral student and cannot be transferred to another person. The benefits are paid on condition that it is the insured doctoral student who withdraws parental benefit from Försäkringskassan when such is possible.

4.1 Levels for parental benefit

Parental benefit can be granted at the following levels:

• Sickness benefit level,

• basic level, or

• minimum level.

For the first 180 days of entitlement to parental benefit to take care of a child, the benefit can be granted at either the sickness benefit level or the basic level.

After 180 days, parental benefit can be granted for 210 days at either the sickness benefit level or the basic level and for 90 days at the minimum level.

Parental benefit at the sickness benefit level can be granted to a parent who is insured if it is possible to establish a Compensation Qualifying Income for that parent.

For full parental benefit, the sickness benefit level is equivalent to the parent's calculation basis for sickness benefit at the normal level.

If full parental benefit at the sickness benefit level does not exceed SEK 250 per day, parental benefit at the basic level is instead granted as described below.

Parental benefit is paid out for a maximum of 480 days per child, and the number of days is coordinated with that taken out by the other parent.

Parental benefit is paid up to and including the day the child has completed their fifth year of compulsory school or when the child turns 12 years old, if this date falls after the end of the school year.

4.2 Calculating the number of days of entitlement to parental benefit

When calculating the number of days of entitlement to parental benefit, the following applies:

• One day of full parental benefit corresponds to one day.

• One day of three-quarter, half, one-quarter or one-eighth parental benefit corresponds to three quarters, half, one quarter and one eighth of one day, respectively.

4.3 Basic level

Parental benefit at the basic level can be granted to a parent who is insured if it is possible to establish a Compensation Qualifying Income for that parent.

For full parental benefit, the basic level is SEK 250 per day.

4.4 Minimum level

Parental benefit at the minimum level can be granted to a parent who is insured and concerns periods when parental benefit may not be granted at the sickness benefit level or the basic level.

For full parental benefit, the minimum level is SEK 180 per day.

4.5 Deduction of compensation from another source

If a parent has received a benefit under foreign legislation, which corresponds to parental benefit in connection with the birth of a child, the period for which that foreign benefit has been granted is deducted from the maximum number of days for which parental benefit can be granted.

The following applies with respect to this deduction:

• If the foreign benefits are based on income from employment or from other gainful activity, the deduction is to be made in the first instance from the days for which parental benefit can be granted at the sickness benefit level.

• If the foreign benefits are granted at an amount that for all beneficiaries is uniform and independent of income from employment or from other gainful activity, the deduction is to be made in the first instance from the days for which parental benefit can be granted only at the minimum level.