Parents must return the money: The Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) abolished the right to family care capital (CPR) for approx. 44 thousand kids in connection with the granting of the right to one of the benefits from the Active Parent program from October 2024. “We are successively considering the remaining applications,” he announces.
What is CPR? Family care capital is a benefit for parents of children aged 12 to 35 months. To parents children of the same age, the Activy Parent program is also aimed at. Under it, you can receive benefits: “actively at home, actively in the nursery and active parents at work”. Importantly, the first two benefits under the program replaced CPR and nursery subsidies.
A clear message from ZUS: “As you cannot receive two benefits in one month, CPR paid for months for which we granted the benefit actively in the nursery, actively at home or active parents at work, is subject to settlement with ZUS – explains the Department. After granting the right to a new benefit, a decision is issued to revoke the right to CPR and the need to settle the CPR paid while the application is being considered.
The money must be paid back: The parents should pay the excess amount return to ZUS. This can be done either with a one-time payment or in installments to the account from which the transfer with the benefit was made. There may also be an overpaid amount deducted monthly from current family benefitse.g. from 800 plus or the Active Parent benefit. Importantly, if an application for the Active Parent benefit is pending, ZUS will pay CPR to maintain continuity of payment. However, this money will have to be returned later.
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