Croatia Child Allowance : gov.hr

Organization : Government of the Republic of Croatia
Facility : Child Allowance
Country : Croatia
Website : https://gov.hr/en/child-allowance/702

What is Croatia Child Allowance?

Child allowance is a cash provision used by a parent or another person defined in the Child Allowance Act as support in upbringing and care of children. The right to child allowance may be exercised if the average monthly income per household member in the previous calendar year does not exceed 140% of the budget base. In 2024 the budget base amounted to 441.44 EUR. The right to child allowance is exercised with the help of the Croatian Pension Insurance Institute.

Related / Similar Facility : Croatia Issuance of Tachograph Cards (e-Tachograph)

Requirements To Qualify For Croatia Child Allowance

The Child Allowance Act stipulates the following requirements to qualify for child allowance:
** The applicant has to have Croatian citizenship or the status of a foreigner with approved permanent stay, and has to have resided in the Republic of Croatia for at least three (3) years prior to filing the application
** The applicant has to have the status of an asylee, foreigner under subsidiary protection or the status of an asylee’s family member in accordance with the asylum regulations, without the requirement of citizenship and length of permanent residence or stay in the territory of the Republic of Croatia
** The total income generated in the previous calendar year per household member may not exceed 140% of the budget base per month
** The applicant has to live in the same household with the child
** The applicant has to live support the child.

By way of exception, the right to child allowance for children and for children of Croatian veterans who died or went missing is exercised in maximum amount notwithstanding the total income of the household.

Beneficiaries of Croatia Child Allowance

** The right to child allowance may be exercised by a parent, other person who, on the basis of a decision of the competent authority, is receiving parental care, adoptive parent, guardian, stepfather, stepmother, grandmother, grandparent and person to whom, on the basis of a decision of the competent authority, the child is entrusted with day-to-day care for all the children he supports.

** The beneficiary of the child allowance can also be an adult child without both parents who are in regular education.

** Child allowance is due until the child reaches the age of 15, i.e. until the end of the school year in which the child reaches the age of 15, and after that if the reason for attending primary school after the age of 15 is later enrolment in the first grade of primary school or loss of grade due to health reasons or longer illness.

** Child allowance belongs to a child in secondary school until the end of that school, but for the longest period until the end of the school year in which the child reaches the age of 19.

** An exception is made for a child who attends a high school in which the secondary education lasts for five years, where the child’s allowance belongs to the child until the completion of the regular school in the secondary school, and for the longest period until the end of the school year in which the child reaches the age of 20.

** For a child who is educated in accordance with the regulations on the education of children with developmental disabilities, the child allowance is due after the age of 15 and the maximum age of 21.

** For a child who resumes regular education in primary or secondary school after the cessation of the disease, but is unable to complete school within the prescribed period due to a longer illness, the right to child allowance is extended after the age to which child allowance belongs in case of secondary school education, for as long as the child has lost from regular education due to the illness, and for a maximum of 21 years of age.

** The child allowance also covers the period during which the child is prevented from attending school regularly due to illness.