Child and youth allowance
You will automatically receive a child and youth benefit if:
you live in Denmark
you are fully taxable in Denmark
your child is under the age of 18
your child lives in Denmark
your child is not dependent of the public
your child is not married
You can not receive children and youth benefit if you move permantly from Denmark, unless you continue to work in Denmark.
You must apply for children and youth benefit if your child lives in another EU/EEA country while you work in Denmark.
Child and youth benefit has as from January 1st 2014 been made dependent on the parents income. This means that if you and/or your spouses income is above a certain amount your child and youth allowance will be reduced.
Supplementary child allowance
You can receive supplementary child allowance if you are in a special situation. It may be if you are:
single parent a pensioner
a student or trainee
parent of twins, triplets etc.
the only parent to a child
adoptive parent
The conditions are different for each supplementary child allowance. You can find more information about the benefits on www.borger.dk
Maternity benefits
You can receive maternity benefit as a financial compensation for loss of income when you are absent from work as a result of pregnancy, birth or adoption. Employees, self-employed persons and those who are unemployed have the possibility of receiving maternity benefit.
You can get maternity benefit if you are an employee and have worked the last 13 weeks before you go on leave. If you are self-employed you must have worked in the past month and at least 6 months within the last year before going on maternity leave. If you are unemployed and receive unemployment benefits, you can also get maternity benefits. You can get maternity leave with maternity benefits for 4 weeks before you expect to give birth. After you have given birth, you have 2 weeks of maternity leave which you must take. Then you have 12 weeks of maternity leave. If you do not meet the 12 weeks you will lose the right to hold them later.
As a father you can keep paternity leave with maternity for 2 weeks.
After the 14 weeks of maternity leave both of you can take parental leave for 32 weeks that is 64 weeks in total. However, it is only for a total of 32 of the 64 weeks, you can get maternity benefits.
Adoption leave
To get maternity benefit when you adopt, you must have a letter from the State Administration, which says that one parent should be home with the baby for a while.