Giving up parental allowance days for the benefit of someone else
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You can turn over a maximum of 63 working days out of your own 160 working days to someone who takes care of the child and who is not working in order to do so.
You can turn over days to
- the child's other parent
- your partner who is not the child’s parent
- the partner of the child's other parent
- another person who is the child’s legal guardian.
A partner here refers to a person married to, cohabiting with or living in a registered partnership with the child’s parent.
You do not have to turn over all of the days to the same person. You can only turn over a total maximum of 63 working days of your parental allowance days to someone else, even if you turn them over to more than one person. You can only turn over full parental allowance days to someone else.
One person can get parental allowance for a maximum of 18 working days at the same time as another person who is also caring for the child.
In OmaKela, you must first give up the number of parental allowance days you want to turn over, before the person you want to turn them over to can claim them.
Linda and Paavo have just had a baby. After her pregnancy leave, Linda stays home on parental leave to take care of the baby. She returns to work after spending 110 working days, or about 4.5 months, on parental leave. She gives up and turns over her remaining 50 days of parental allowance to Paavo.
Paavo thus has a total of 210 working days of parental allowance to take out.
Eevi and Iiro have recently had a baby together. Eevi and Iiro do not live together and they are not married. Iiro has acknowledged parenthood of the child. Iiro has a new partner Maija, to whom Iiro has turned over some of his parental allowance days. Eevi, Iiro and Maija take care of the baby at the same time for a period of three weeks in connection with the birth of the baby. All three of them can get parental allowance for the same period of time for a maximum of 18 working days.
Situations where more parental allowance days can be turned over
In the following situations, you can turn over more parental allowance days to someone else:
- more children than one are born or adopted at the same time
- the baby is born prematurely
- the baby has only one parent.
How to turn over parental allowance days
- Agree on turning over parental allowance days with the person to whom you want to turn over the days.
- Turn over the days in OmaKela. You can give up and turn over days by completing the application for daily allowances for parents. Another alternative is that you send a message in OmaKela, saying to whom you are turning over your parental allowance days and how many days you are turning over.
If you are a birthing parent, you can turn over parental allowance days even before the child has been born. If you are the other guardian of the child, you cannot turn over parental allowance days until after the child has been born. - The person you are turning your days over to must then apply for parental allowance in OmaKela for the days you have turned over to them. Please note that the person you are turning over the days to will be able to see the days in OmaKela only after applying for parental allowance for the days in question and receiving a decision.
If you cannot access OmaKela, you can turn over days by calling our customer service number. You can also turn over days by completing and posting the form Notification – Parental allowances SV 17e (pdf).
Withdrawing a decision to turn over parental allowance days
You can withdraw a decision to turn over parental allowance days either entirely or in part. If the person who received the days you turned over has already used some of the days, you will only get back as many days as remain unused.
If parental allowance days were turned over to you, you cannot return them yourself; instead, the person who turned them over to you must withdraw them. Also, days that were turned over to you cannot be passed on to a third person.