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Housing allowance for families with children

Housing allowance is support for families with children who need help to pay rent or monthly fees for their housing.

Am I eligible for housing allowance?

You can easily find out whether you can receive housing allowance by using the “Kassakollen” function. You can receive housing allowance regardless of whether you own or rent your home.

Kassakollen

You can receive housing allowance for families with children if

  • you have a child/children living with you
  • you pay more than SEK 1 400 a month for your housing
  • you live and are registered at the address you are seeking allowance for.

Exceptions from the registration requirement can be made if special circumstances exist. Such exceptions are:

  • If you are living in the residence less than one year. Then, you will not normally be registered there, but may nonetheless be eligible to housing allowance.
  • If you are at risk of being a victim of crime, stalking or serious harassment and are therefore allowed to remain registered at your old address (referred to as “kvarskrivning” in Swedish).

How much do I get?

In the “Kassakollen” function, you can quickly and easily see how much you can receive in housing allowance. How much you can receive depends on

  • your income
  • the number of children living in your home
  • what your housing costs
  • the size of your residence

Kassakollen

Temporary additional allowance

Families with children with housing allowance will receive a temporary supplementary allowance from July 2020. The money is paid out automatically to families with children who have housing allowance. You do not need to apply for the money.

The additional allowance will be 25% of the amount you usually receive in housing allowance each month. You can receive a maximum of SEK 1,325 in additional allowance each month. You do not need to pay tax on this allowance.

The additional allowance will be paid until December 2020.

How do I apply for housing allowance?

1. Prepare digital documents about your housing

You will need to attach copies of documents about your housing when you apply for housing allowance.

 
  • your latest rent specification
  • your lease - if it is the first time you are applying for housing allowance for this home.

If you do not already have the documents as files on your computer, you can take photos of them with your phone or scan them.  

If you cannot add the appendices when you submit your application, it is fine to submit them later. Remember to do this as soon as possible, but within no more than 7 days after submitting your application.

  

 
  • your latest association fee specification
  • your transfer agreement - if it is the first time you are applying for housing allowance for this home
  • papers that show that the tenant-owner's right is mortgaged, if you have loans on your tenant-owner's right
  • your most recent loan specification with the current debt and interest rate, if you have loans on the co-operative flat.

If you do not already have the documents as files on your computer, you can take photos of them with your phone or scan them.  

If you cannot add the appendices when you submit your application, it is fine to submit them later. Remember to do this as soon as possible, but within no more than 7 days after submitting your application.

 

 
  • papers that show that the house is mortgaged, if you have loans on the house
  • your most recent loan specification with the current debt and interest rate, if you have loans on the house
  • papers that show what your site leasehold costs - if you have a site leasehold.

If you do not already have the documents as files on your computer, you can take photos of them with your phone or scan them.  

If you cannot add the appendices when you submit your application, it is fine to submit them later. Remember to do this as soon as possible, but within no more than 7 days after submitting your application.

 

 

Send in your appendices by standard post to Försäkringskassans inläsningscentral 839 88 Östersund. We can handle your case more quickly if you send in your appendices together with the cover sheet.

5167 Cover sheet for appendices to Försäkringskassan (59.3 kB)PDF opens in a new window

 

2. Gather information about your income

Several different types of income are included when you apply for housing allowance. You will find a lot of the information you need in your latest tax return.

 
  • income from employment, e.g. salary and taxable benefits such as parental benefit, childcare allowance, sickness benefit, sickness compensation, activity compensation, and pension.
  • income from own business
  • some foreign income
  • student aid in the form of study grants and study start aid
  • tax-exempt scholarships
  • introduction benefit
  • Your assets that exceed a total of SEK 100,000. For example private real estate, securities such as shares or cash in bank accounts.
  • the assets of any child living at home
  • half of the assets of any child with alternating residence
  • investment income, such as interest on bank accounts and bonds, capital gains, and dividends from shares and mutual funds. If you have a child living in your home either full time or alternatingly, their investment income is usually included as well. 
 

3. Apply for housing allowance

 
  1. Sign in to My Pages and fill in the details.

If you have children over 18, they should also log in to My Pages and sign. The child can only see and sign the information related to them.

   

 

 
  1. You or your partner need to log in to My Pages and fill in information for both of you. Keep in mind that the first person who logs in is the one who receives the payment of the housing allowance.
  2. Once the application has been signed, the other person must log in and approve the information within 10 days.

If you have children over 18, they should also log in to My Pages and sign. The application will be sent to the child's My Pages after you have both signed it. The child can only see and sign the information related to them.

Log in to My pages (My pages) to apply for housing allowance.


 

How to apply for housing allowance with double signatures

2 minutes

This video shows you how to apply for housing allowance together with another person.

4. Disbursement

If your application is complete, you will receive a decision within no more than 30 days. If any information is missing, we will contact you.

The money is paid out in arrears on the 27th of each month.

If the disbursement date is a Saturday or Sunday, your money will be paid out on Friday.

When will the disbursement appear on My pages (Mina sidor)?

On My pages (Mina sidor), you can see the disbursement under Disbursements (Utbetalningar) 5 bank days before the money arrives.

5. Notify us if anything changes

It is important that you notify us if your income or your housing situation changes, for example if you stop studying and start working and thereby have a higher income. We can then make sure you receive the right amount of benefit. If you receive too much money, you may be obligated to pay money back later.

 

If you are earning more than you thought you would

Change your housing allowance on My pages (Mina sidor) or call the Customer Centre at 0771-524 524 and let us know.

If you are earning less than you thought you would

Change your housing allowance on My pages (Mina sidor).

If you move

Submit a new application for the new address.

Other changes

On My pages (Mina sidor), you can inform us if

  • you receive more income that is not salary
  • your rent or monthly fee has changed
  • someone moves in with you
  • any of your children moves away from home.

If you cannot or do not want to apply via My pages (Mina sidor), you can apply using the form.

5098 Form to inform us of changes (103 kB)

 

 

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Frequently asked questions

Yes. You are eligible for housing allowance if

  • the child lives with you at least 30 days per year
  • you live in a residence that is at least 40 square metres
  • the residence has at least two rooms and a kitchen

No. You cannot receive allowance for time before you applied. There is one exception to this. If you had a retroactive rent increase, you can receive allowance for previous months.

This is possible in certain cases. For example, if you are temporarily living at another address for less than a year and then will move back to your registered address.  This also applies if you are allowed to remain registered at your old address (referred to as “kvarskrivning” in Swedish).

Yes. If you have a sublease that has been approved by the landlord or tenant-owner's association, you can apply for housing allowance.

No. However, if you have children who live with you the majority of the time, you may be entitled to the special allowance for children living at home.

If you have children who live with you 50% of the time, you may be entitled to the special allowance for children with alternating living arrangements.

Contact the Customer Centre at 0771-524 524 to learn more.

Yes. Log in to My pages (Mina sidor) to change your account number.

If you want your disbursements to be deposited in someone else's account, fill in a power of attorney and send it in to us.

5098 Change of housing allowance (106 kB)PDF opens in a new window

When you applied for housing allowance, you provided preliminary information on the income you thought you would receive during the year in question. Around the end of each year, we perform a final calculation of the housing allowance, where we compare your preliminary income information with the information from your tax return, which we receive from the Swedish Tax Agency.

If you received too little in housing allowance, you will receive a supplemental disbursement. Supplemental disbursement is paid out in February. You do not have to do anything to receive the disbursement. It is deposited into the same account as that used for the housing allowance.

If you are connected to the My messages (Mina meddelanden) service, your decision letter will be sent to your digital mailbox instead of to your home in paper form.

About My messages (Mina meddelanden)

No, you can only receive the allowance for part of your housing cost? This part is called the allowance qualifying housing cost.

There is an upper limit for what housing cost is considered allowance qualifying. For families with children, the limit is based on the number of children living in the home.

The limit can be reduced, for example, if the size of your residence (in square metres) exceeds a certain limit, if you rent out one or more rooms or if anyone other than your spouse, live-in partner or children lives with you.

Call the Customer Centre at 0771-524 524 if you have any questions about what applies in your particular case.

Yes. If you received too much money, you can pay back the excess in advance. If you pay back the difference before 30 September of the year after you received the allowance, you will not be charged any fee.

Ja. Du kan få bostadsbidrag om

  • du har vårdnaden om barnet
  • barnet bor varaktigt ungefär halva tiden hos dig och halva tiden hos den andra föräldern, så kallat växelvis boende

If you have technical issues

If your e-identification does not work or if you have other technical issues, you can get help on our technical support pages. There, you can get assistance from an administrator directly in a web meeting. You are then connected with the administrator, who can see your screen and help you. Web meetings are available during the Customer Centre’s opening hours.

Technical support

If you have a protected identity

If you have a protected identity, you cannot use all of the e-services found on My pages (Mina sidor). You can instead apply using a paper form.

If you must apply using a paper form

All forms that can be downloaded from the website can be found under Forms and certificates.

Forms and certificates

Related links

Information about repayment

If you are young and do not have children

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