Child benefit
- If you have been permanently residing in Croatia for at least 3 years, or have had the status of a foreigner with an approved permanent residence permit for at least 3 years, or asylum grantee status or a person under subsidiary protection without conditions in terms of citizenship or length of residence, and your household income is below a certain threshold, you are entitled to child benefit.
- You can claim child benefit if your total income, earned in the previous calendar year, does not exceed 70% of the calculation base.
- In other words, if the average income per member of your household does not exceed HRK 2,328.20 (EUR 221.00) a month.
- If you claim child benefit for three or more children, you are also entitled to birth grant, but on condition that your income is not greater than the income threshold.
- Child benefit can be claimed by a parent, adoptive parent, caregiver, stepfather, stepmother, grandmother, grandfather and foster parent.
- The claimant may be a grown child without both parents who is in full-time education.
- Child benefit, as a rule, is paid for children aged up to 15 years or 19 years old. It may be prolonged to 21 years for a child who did not finish school in the usual period of time due to illness.
- For severely disabled children up to the age of 18 or while a full time student, child benefit is paid while such disability exists.
Starting the process:
Application for claiming child benefit: https://www.mirovinsko.hr/UserDocsImages/tiskanice/Tiskanica_br_1_7.pdf
Application for remittance of Croatian child benefits via bank transfer:
https://www.mirovinsko.hr/UserDocsImages/tiskanice/Tiskanica_7-7_Zahtjev_za_doznaku_hrvatskog_dd_preko_banke.pdf
Application for issuing a certificate regarding the paid child benefit
https://www.mirovinsko.hr/UserDocsImages/tiskanice/Tiskanica_1_12.pdf
Parental entitlements
time and cash benefits available to beneficiaries:
- Maternity and parental leave;
- Right to work half your working hours in order to provide your child with more care;
- Leave for caring for a child with severe development disabilities;
- Adoptive parent leave;
- cash assistance (income-replacement benefit, lower cash benefit, cash assistance).
Foreign nationals with permanent residence in Croatia, asylum grantees and persons under subsidiary protection have the same rights as Croatian nationals.
Conditions:
- If you are an employed or self-employed parent, in order to claim income-replacement benefit while on maternity or parental leave, you must have at least 12 months pensionable service (see Jargon busters) or at least 18 months in the last 2 years if you had interruptions in your career.
- If you fail to meet this condition, you are entitled to a reduced amount of income-replacement benefit.
- If you are a parent with other income or a farmer outside of the value added tax or income tax system, you must have been permanently residing in Croatia for at least 3 years, or have had a permanent residence permit for at least 3 years if you are a foreign national.
- If you are a parent outside of the labour system, you must have Croatian citizenship and have permanently resided in Croatia for at least 5 years.
- Foreign nationals must have had a permanent residence permit for at least 5 years.
- All categories of parent must be insured under the mandatory health insurance scheme.
More info:
https://www.hzzo.hr/rodiljne-i-roditeljske-potpore/
Institution
Croatian Pension Insurance Institute, Regional Office in Zagreb
Tvrtkova 5; Zagreb 10000
Tel: +385 1 4595 500
E-mail:
zagreb@mirovinsko.hr
Working hours 8 til 16 hours (Monday-Friday)
The Croatian Pension Insurance Institute (HZMO) is a public institution established under the Pension Insurance Act. https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2019_10_102_2048.html
The Croatian Pension Insurance Institute is a legal person with rights obligations and responsibilities established Law and by the Statute and it has public authority in resolving on the rights and obligations from pension insurance.
The HZMO operates independently and it is represented by its director.
The ministry in charge of the pension system performs administrative supervision of the HZMO and the ministry competent for family supervises and monitors the implementation of child benefit regulations.
There are three legal entities in HZMO’s ownership:
• Croatian Pension Insurance d.o.o. (HMO d.o.o.),
• Croatian Pension Investment Company d.o.o. (HMID d.o.o.).
• Croatian Pension Insurance Company (HR MOD d.d.).
HZMO’s head office is in Zagreb, A. Mihanovića 3
Info: HZMO
Croatian Health Insurance Institute, Zagreb Regional Office
Mihanovićeva 3; Zagreb 10000
Tel: +385 1 4577 150
Working hours 8 til 16 hours (Monday-Friday)
E-mail:
info@hzzo.hr
The Croatian Institute for Health Insurance (HZZO) is a public institution and legal entity – its rights, obligations and responsibility are established under the Act on Mandatory Health Insurance and the Statute of the Croatian Institute for Health Insurance
The Ministry of Health monitors the legality of the Institute’s work
The Institute is managed by an Administrative Board, which is comprised of 9 members, appointed by the Government of the Republic of Croatia. The Administrative Board makes adopts decisions and general acts of the Institute. The director governs the work of the Institute. The Institute operates through 7 departments managed by assistant directors. The Institute’s structure consists of a Direction and 4 regional offices (Zagreb, Osijek, Split, Rijeka) that govern the work of 16 regional offices at 134 locations
Info: HZZO
