Application for payments from the Maternity Leave Fund - children born in 2021 and later

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Parents fill in separate forms if both intend to apply.

Information about the applicant

Name

ID number

Address

Postal code

Municipality

Home phone / Mobile phone / Work phone

Communication with the Maternity Leave Fund

A letter from the Maternity Leave Fund will be sent to the given email address

Request genderless registration

Name of the other parent

The other parent's ID number

Birth, adoption and permanent fostering

Use of independent right in months

Utilisation of the transfer in days

Waiver of transferable right in days

One parent - Applies when one parent dies during a child's pregnancy and the child is born alive, a single mother undergoes artificial insemination or a single parent adopts a child or takes a child into permanent foster care

Multible birth - number of children

Rights due to multiple births- For each child beyond one born alive or stillborn after 22 weeks of pregnancy, is adopted or taken into permanent foster care, 90 days are added.

Information about bank account, pension fund, private pension fund and trade union

Banknumber

Ledger

Account number

Pension fund (obligatory payments)

Pension fund department

Private pension fund (payments are optional)

% to go into private pension savings

Trade union - optional (If union dues are not paid during maternity and paternity leave, all union rights may be forfeited)

Required supporting documents. (Supporting documents can be submitted after the application has been submitted using the portal: Additional documents for applications. Note that applications cannot be processed until the necessary supporting documents have been received).

If a parent wants to use a personal discount, the form "Request for the use of a personal tax credit" must be received no later than the 20th day of the month in which it is to be used (form downloaded from the website of the Directorate of Labour).

If the parents are not married or in a registered partnership, the following must be received:

If the parents are not married or in a registered partnership, the custodial parent must provide confirmation of access rights "Confirmation of access rights of non-custodial parent".

Other information that the parent wishes to provide

If additional data is required, please use the Additional Data Portal for Applications.

I hereby confirm that the information provided is to the best of my knowledge

I hereby confirm that I am aware that the Labor Agency will obtain the necessary data from the records of the Icelandic Revenue and Customs during the implementation of the law when calculating payments and during supervision.

Notification of leave arrangements (form downloaded from the website of the Directorate of Labour)

Certificate of the child's expected date of birth, if applicable (available from the midwife)

A self-employed parent must submit confirmation of a reduction in the calculated remuneration if applicable (available from Revenue and Customs)

The signature of the custodial parent together with the child's birth certificate issued by Registers Iceland confirming the child's paternity.

Joint custody agreement confirmed by the county commissioner

Service provider

Directorate of Labour

Related material

Application for parental leave

Send documents online to the Maternity and Paternity Leave Fund

Forms and applications