Kela private day care allowance

zastler · Post by **zastler** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 1:42 pm

Hei

I have just spent a very confusing morning shuttling between Kela and our private day care centrey and worrying about money.

I thought that Kelas private day care allowance is paid to US to help us pay the private day care fees. It seems however, that the money got pay to the day care provider directly. What I have paid to the play school now seems to have just been a top up of the Kela payment. It adds up like this: I pay about 200 euros / month / child to the play school and they receive about 300 Euros / month from Kela and something extra from the municipality. I don't get anything from Kela (was news to me too).

We didn't like the private day care and put our children into the wonderful local paivakoti a few weeks ago. Now the private day care asks us to pay fees for the month's notice we have to give them (yes, of course) PLUS the money they don't receive from Kela as of course Kela doesn't pay private day care allowance while our children are in municipal day care.

Does this make sense? Is this normal procedure???

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Hämeen Hitain · Post by **Hämeen Hitain** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 2:31 pm

read your contract with the private day care. Does it have an irtisamomisaika of one month?

Flossy1978 · Post by **Flossy1978** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:08 am

The government is helping you pay for daycare.... Directly to the daycare. As it should be. Imagine what scamming and trouble could take place if people suddenly got 100's of euros into the accounts every month? Or even 1000's if they have more than one child?

Probably you have to pay because it's a private daycare. They need to make a profit. Did you just pull your child out of the private daycare and straight into the government one without any 'pre' warning to the private daycare? If so, then I think it must be within the rights of the private daycare to charge you for a month, so they can find someone to fill your spot. Read your contract. It should be in there.

I guess it's an expensive lesson learnt.

Mook · Post by **Mook** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 9:36 am

Sounds about right.

You even pay money to the Municipal daycares on top of the subsidy (but it gets reduced, per child)

Our wonderful private daycare charges 300 Euros/month, per child (plus the subsidy that they get directly from Kela & commune)

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