Home payments

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Home payments

The Municipality of Hafnarfjörður pays monthly home-based payments for eleven months of the year to the parents and guardians of children who are not in a nursery or with a day-care provider from the age of 12 months until the child turns 30 months. Payments cease if a child starts nursery school or goes to a day-care provider before then. No payment is made for July. The monthly payment is based on the standard subsidy for 8 hours of care with a day-care provider.

The conditions for payment are as follows:

  • The parent/guardian and child must be permanently resident in Hafnarfjörður. If permanent residence is moved from Hafnarfjörður in the month of application, the right to home payments is cancelled.
  • The child must have turned or be turning 12 months of age in the month the application is made, and be no older than 30 months. Home-based care can be requested for children over 30 months while waiting for a place at a nursery in Hafnarfjörður, provided that no fees are being paid for a place elsewhere.
  • A child is on a waiting list for a nursery place in Hafnarfjörður.
  • That the parents/guardians are not receiving other subsidies for the child from the City of Hafnarfjörður.

You must apply for home payments at Our pages. Payment is made on the last working day of each month, after the fact for the preceding month. Payments are made for eleven months of the year; no payment is made for July. Payments are not backdated.

You must apply for home payments annually.

  • An application must be made once a year for each child who is entitled to child benefit.
  • An application must be received by the 19th of the month in which home payments are requested to begin.
  • An application is valid until 30 June each year, as long as the child is entitled to child benefit.
  • The application must be renewed annually by 19 August.
  • Payment for July is not due.