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Benefits for disabled people

The purpose of paying social benefits for people with disabilities is to support independent living, social integration, and equal opportunities for people with disabilities.

We determine and pay social benefits for disabled people to a permanent residents of Estonia or to a person living in Estonia on the basis of a temporary residence permit or temporary right of residence.

The calculation of the social benefit is based on the rate of social benefits per month, which is 25.57 euros.

If you have additional expenses due to disability, we will pay you social benefits for disabled people due to special needs. Additional costs may be related, for example, to the use of technical aids or transport, maintenance, or rehabilitation.

If you have not submitted an application for the social benefit for disabled people, together with the application for determining the severity of a disability, please submit a separate application to receive the benefit. You can find the application on our forms page in the social benefits section.

An application for social benefit must be submitted

  • each time you apply for the first time
  • the transition from the allowance for a disabled child to the allowance for a person of working age with a disability
  • in case of repeated determination of the severity of a disability, if more than one year has passed since the end of payment of the allowance

No application for social benefit should be submitted

  • in case of repeated detection of the severity of disability before one year has passed since the payment of the allowance has stopped;
  • during the transition from the payment of the allowance for a person of working age with a disability to the payment of the allowance for a person of old-age pension age with a disability if the severity of the disability is repeatedly identified before one year has passed since the payment of the allowance has stopped.

Allowance for a disabled child

We pay an allowance to a disabled child from 138.08 to 241.64 euros per month, depending on the severity of the disability.

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Allowance for a disabled parent

If you have been determined a disability and you are raising a child alone, or if both you and your spouse have a disability and your family is raising children, we will pay you a disabled parent's allowance.

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Allowance for a child with a rare disease

We pay support to a child diagnosed with a rare disease whose severity of a disability has not been determined

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Allowance for a person of working age with disabilities

Depending on the severity of the disability, we pay an allowance of 28.64 - 53.70 euros per month to a person of working age with disabilities.

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Allowance for a person of retirement age with disabilities

We pay a social benefit of 12 - 40 euros per month to a disabled person of retirement age, depending on the severity of the disability

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Study allowance

We pay a study allowance to a non-working student with a disability who is studying at a high school, a vocational training institution, or a university of higher education and who has additional expenses related to their studies due to his disability.

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Continuing education allowance

We pay continuing education allowance to a working disabled person for partial compensation of the actual education costs incurred by them up to 613.68 euros within three calendar years.

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Last updated: 22.03.2023

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