Published: 22.01.2021.
Price
Free
Execution deadline in working days
22
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Individual person
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The benefit is granted to one of the adopters after the court judgement approving the adoption has taken effect. The benefit is paid for each child who was in out-of-home care (institution, guardianship, foster family) before the adoption and has not reached the age of 18.

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Process description

  1. Service requests
    The allowance must be claimed within 6 months of the date on which the judgment of the court on approval of the adoption took effect. When applying for the benefit at a later date, it shall only be granted for the previous 6 months before the date of application for the benefit.

    In order to claim the benefit, a specific form of application addressed to the SAA must be completed.
    May submit a submission:
    • on the www.latvija.lv portal;
    • on-site (if requested for service, a personal identification document (passport or ID card) must be produced);
    • electronically (the application must be signed with a secure electronic signature containing the time stamp);
    • by post.
    An application may be submitted in person to any VSAA customer service centre or to the unified customer service centres of the State and local governments.

    The submission shall indicate the preferred method of receiving the decision.

    If the VSAA does not have information on approval of the adoption, the applicant must present a court judgment or provide a certified copy of the judgment in any section of the SAA, or send a certified copy of the judgment to the VSAA Zemgale department by post.

  2. Receipt of services

    If the official electronic address account (hereinafter the e-address) is activated, the decision will be sent by the SSIA to the e-address regardless of how the application is submitted.

    If the e-address is not enabled and:

    • completed for e-submission on portal Latvija.gov.lv, the decision will be available for viewing on portal Latvija.gov.lv in the “SSIA information and services” e-service under the “logged-in services” section;

    • the application has been submitted to the SSIA in person, electronically (signed with a secure electronic signature) or sent by post - the decision may be received according to the type of receipt of the decision indicated in the application: on the portal, Latvija.gov.lv, face-to-face, or by post

    At the choice of the recipient, the SSIA shall transfer the service to the account of the Latvian credit institution or postal payment system.

The allowance may be received by an adopter:

  • who, together with the child, resides permanently in Latvia (including Latvian citizens, non-citizens, foreign nationals, and stateless persons);
  • who, together with the child, has been assigned a personal identity number.

The allowance shall be granted for each adopted child to one of the adoptive parents who has adopted and is raising the child:

  • who, prior to adoption, was in out-of-family care (in an institution, under guardianship, or in a foster family);
  • who has not reached the age of 18 years.

The allowance shall not be granted:

  • if the adopted child is the biological child of the adopter’s spouse;
  • to adopters who have been granted a temporary residence permit for residing in the Republic of Latvia.

The amount of the allowance is:

  • for a child until reaching the age of 7 – €107.50 per month;
  • from the age of 7 until the child reaching the age of 18 – €129 per month.

The allowance must be claimed within 6 months of the date on which the judgment of the court on approval of the adoption took effect (but not for more than the previous six months, counting from the date of submission of the allowance application).

The allowance shall be disbursed from the date it is granted until the adopted child reaches the age of 18 years.

Disbursement of the allowance shall be suspended:

  • for the period during which the recipient of the allowance or the child for whom the allowance is granted is in full State care or placed in a State, local government, or private care institution;
  • if the recipient of the allowance or the child for whom the allowance is granted departs from the Republic of Latvia to reside permanently in a foreign country;
  • if the child is placed under guardianship.

 

The allowance shall be disbursed once a month for the current month (for example: in May for May).

 

The allowance may be received by transfer to the recipient’s account with a credit institution of the Republic of Latvia or within the Postal Settlement System (PSS).

 

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