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Family and social welfare
Social Insurance Administration

Home supplement for pensioners living alone

Application for home supplement

Amounts

The amounts of the household allowance are:

Disability and rehabilitation pensioners: 68.213 ISK per month before tax.

Pensioners: 84.197 ISKper month before tax.

Half of the pensioners: 42.099 ISK per month before tax.

What affects the amount

If income exceeds the free income limit, the household allowance is reduced.

The percentage of deduction after the free-income limit is reached for:

  • pensioners 11.9%,

  • disability and rehabilitation pensioners 12,96 %.

Home supplement - frequently asked questions

People are registered in the National Registry as living in my home that don't live there and I don't get a home pension supplement, what can I do?

Do I qualify for home pension supplement after a spousal death?

Do I qualify for a home pension supplement?

Home pension supplement - how much do I get paid?

How do I apply for a home allowance for pensioners who live alone?

I need help applying for home pension supplement, had a previous refusal

Why was an application for home pension supplement denied?

What is the status of my application for home pension supplement?

Does a lease need to be registered with the District Commissioner to receive a home pension supplement?

Application for home supplement

Service provider

So­cial In­sur­ance Ad­min­is­tra­tion

Related material

Disability pension
Rehabilitation pensions
Old age pension
Half old age pension
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Additional payments to people with limited old age pension rights