Parental pension

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With effect from January 1^st 2025, the entitlement to parental pension has ceased. The right guaranteed by the Constitution of the Slovak Republic pursuant to Art. 39(5) of Act No. 460/1992 Coll. as amended by Constitutional Act No. 422/2020 Coll. will be satisfied in the form of an assignment of a share of the tax paid. The Social Insurance Agency will pay the share of the tax paid for the year 2025 for the first time in 2026. In relation to parental pension, this means that the entitlement to parental pension has ceased ex officio from 1^st January 2025.

Assessment of the entitlement to parental pension

If the entitlement to parental pension commenced by 31^st December 2024, the Social Insurance Agency will assess it pursuant to Act No. 461/2003 Coll. as amended, until 31^st December 2024.

Applying for parental pension is not necessary. The exception only concerns pension recipients from abroad. You can apply for a parental pension by submitting a special application, which can be found here: Application for Parental Pension of a Pension Recipient Receiving Pension Only from Abroad (SK) (the application does not apply to pension recipients receiving pension from the Social Insurance Agency, and pension recipients receving service pension), since the Social Insurance Agency does not have any data on these pension recipients which can be used to assess the parental pension entitlement.

The decision on the parental pension will be delivered to you by post or to your email inbox, if you have activated it.

Declarations for the purpose of the parental pension entitlement

Declarations for the purpose of parental pension entitlement no longer need to be submitted to the Social Insurance Agency. The declaration that the entitlement to parental pension in 2023 and 2024 did not commence or commenced for the person to whom you were given into custody replacing the care of the parents, or if you wanted to change your expression of will, had to be submitted by

• February 28^th, 2023 (if it concerns parental pension for 2023)
• August 31^st, 2023 (if it concerns parental pension for 2024).

Amount of parental pension

The amount of parental pension is determined as 1.5% of one twelfth of the total of assessment bases of the child. The maximum amount of parental pension is determined as 1.5% of one twelfth of 1.2 times the general assessment basis.

For the purpose of determining the parental pension amount:

• in 2023 – the child's assessment basis for the calendar year 2021 and the general assessment basis valid in the calendar year 2021 are taken into account,
• in 2024 – the child's assessment basis for the calendar year 2022 and the general assessment basis valid in the calendar year 2022 are taken into account.

The maximum amount of parental pension for one child in

• 2023 is 21.80 euros per month,
• 2024 is 23.50 euros per month.

Payment of parental pension

The Social Insurance Agency will pay the parental pension to the pension recipient in one lump sum for the entire calendar year in the same way as the amount of the relevant pension will be paid.

Example:

In 2025, the Social Insurance Agency will award the old-age pension from 1^st January 2023. Together with the awarding of the old-age pension, the entitlement to parental pension for 2023 and 2024 will also be assessed. The old-age pension recipient raised one child.

The child's assessment basis for the calendar year:

• 2021 was 18,000 euros.
• 2022 was 12,000 euros.

The amount of parental pension in:

• 2023 is 21.80 euros per month (18,000 : 12 = 1,500; 1,500 x 1.5% = 22.50).
  The maximum amount of parental pension in 2023 is 21.80 euros per month.
• 2024 is 15 euros per month (12,000 : 12 = 1,000; 1,000 x 1.5% = 15).

The total payment of parental pension in

• 2023 is 261.60 euros (21.80 x 12 = 261.60),
• 2024 is 180 euros (15 x 12 = 180).

In 2025, the Social Insurance Agency will pay the parental pension for 2023 and 2024 in the amount of 441.60 euros to the recipient of an old-age pension.

What about the protection of personal data?

Pursuant to Art.170(2) of the Social Insurance Act, the Social Insurance Agency may provide data from its information system only with the consent of natural persons and legal entities to whom the data directly relates, unless this Act or a special regulation provides otherwise. The Social Insurance Agency may provide data pursuant to Art. 1 without the consent of the natural persons and legal entities concerned to third parties only to the extent necessary for the performance of activities related to the recovery and assignment of claims and to participants in proceedings on the parental pension entitlement, widow's pension, widower's pension or orphan's pension or the entitlement to their payment, if it concerns personal data specified in the decision that are necessary for the assessment of the entitlement to parental pension, widow's pension, widower's pension or orphan's pension or the entitlement to their payment. The consent of the data subject is not required for the transfer of data for the performance of social insurance necessary for social insurance providers of a Member State of the European Union, a State that is a contracting party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, the Swiss Confederation and a State with which the Slovak Republic has concluded a social security agreement. The consent of the data subject is not required for the provision of personal data in connection with the performance of the function of the access point pursuant to Art. 120(5).

The assessment basis mentioned in the decision is stated in order to comply with the provisions of Art. 209 of the Social Insurance Act, according to which the Social Insurance Agency must, among other things, state the facts that were the grounds for the decision. One of the basic facts is the assessment basis, from which the amount of parental pension is determined, and for the purpose of scrutinizing the decision taken by the Social Insurance Agency. The statement of the assessment basis is in accordance with Art. 170(2) of the Social Insurance Act, because it is information stated in the decision that is necessary for assessing the parental pension entitlement,or the entitlement to its payment, which the Social Insurance Agency may provide to the parties to the proceedings on the parental pension entitlement without the consent of the natural persons concerned (see also the part on Parental pension and GDPR (SK)).