Customer fees

• The family is considered to include spouses living in a joint household, whether they are married or otherwise living in a marriage-like relationship, as well as their minor children living in the same household with them.
• Family income is considered to be the total taxable earned and capital income of all members, as well as tax-exempt income, such as alimony and child support, including holiday pay.
• If there is a fluctuation in earned income, the average monthly income is taken into account in the amount of income.
• The following are not considered income: child allowance, disability benefits, child increase for national pension, general housing allowance, medical expenses from accident insurance, military allowance, front-line allowance, study grant, adult education allowance, housing allowance for student aid, activity allowances and travel allowances paid in connection with social assistance, maintenance allowances related to rehabilitation benefits, grants, family care cost allowances and child home care allowance.
• Paid maintenance allowances are deducted from income.

• The City of Riihimäki Early Childhood Education Service generally retrieves the income information of the child's guardians directly from the Incomes Register, unless the family has given their consent to the highest fee according to the reserved hours.
• Since not all information is available from the Incomes Register, guardians must attach the missing information to the income statement form (e.g. entrepreneur's income statement, capital, interest and dividend income, maintenance support, rehabilitation support paid by an insurance company, pension income, adult education support, unemployment benefits paid by unemployment funds).
• When starting work, for example after parental leave, income information is not immediately available from the Incomes Register. In this case, the guardian must wait for the first full month's salary before completing the income statement in eDaisy.

• The customer fee is based on the most recently confirmed taxation if the entrepreneur's income information is not available through the Incomes Register.
• The taxable income of guardians can be taken into account as the corresponding taxable income confirmed in the most recent tax return, increased by the percentages that the Tax Board determines in its annual decisions on the basis for calculating advance collection.
• Customer fees will be reviewed retroactively from the beginning of the term (August 1) when a new completed tax certificate is submitted. If the tax certificate for the year in question has not been submitted by the end of December of the current year, the early childhood education fee will be increased retroactively from the beginning of the term to the maximum fee provided for by law.

Calculation instructions: (gross income – income limit) x payment percentage = treatment fee

Early childhood education client fees – Income limits

If the family size is larger than six people, the income threshold on which the payment is based is increased by 275 euros for each additional minor child in the family.

Early childhood education client fees – Discount

If the specified monthly fee is less than 30 euros, no fee will be charged.

In the early childhood education of the city of Riihimäki, siblings in private early childhood education are taken into account when determining the client fee, according to the table above.

• If a child is absent from early childhood education for an entire calendar month due to illness, no customer fee is charged.
• If a child is absent from care for at least 11 days during a calendar month due to illness, half of the specified client fee will be charged.
• If a child is absent for another reason for the entire calendar month, half of the monthly fee will be charged as a customer fee.
• If a child's early childhood education begins or ends in the middle of a calendar month, the customer fee will be prorated according to the days of validity of the care relationship. Termination must be made through the eDaisy service.
• For the paternity benefit period (children born before 3.9.2022 September 1224), the client fee is not charged for the days (for the child to whom the paternity benefit period applies) when the child is absent (Health Insurance Act 2004/9, Section 7, Section XNUMX). The paternity benefit period must be notified to the head of the early childhood education unit in writing two weeks before the start of the period.
• Family leave reform from 1 August 2022: Parental allowance leave applies to children born after 4 September 2022 or adopted after 31 July 2022. No payment is made for days on which the child is absent from early childhood education and care without interruption during the parental allowance periods referred to in the Health Insurance Act (Early Childhood Education Act 540/2018, Section 15). An absence lasting more than five days must be reported no later than one month before the planned start date. A repeated absence lasting 1–5 days must be reported one week before the planned start date of the first absence. Once the child has already started early childhood education and care, the guardians have the right to stay on parental leave with the child for a maximum of 13 weeks, and in this case the child's early childhood education and care place remains the same.
• Rehabilitative early childhood education provided as free special care for children with developmental disabilities will gradually cease in accordance with the Disability Services Act that entered into force on 1.1.2025 January 1.1.2025. A child with developmental disabilities who started early childhood education before 1.1.2025 January XNUMX will retain the right to free rehabilitative early childhood education and is free of charge to the extent specified in the child's special care programme. For those who started early childhood education after XNUMX January XNUMX, a client fee will be charged in accordance with the Early Childhood Education Client Fees Act.
• A temporary early childhood education fee may be charged when early childhood education is used for 1–4 days per month. Alternatively, the family can choose a fee based on the lowest hourly rate of early childhood education time and family income.
• If the child's parents or other guardians do not accept the early childhood education place applied for and granted to the child and the place has not been cancelled before the early childhood education begins in accordance with the municipality's decision, the child's parents or other guardians may be charged half of the monthly fee for the selected hour level.

Hourly scales used in early childhood education in the city of Riihimäki

• maximum 53 hours/month, payment 47%
• 54–84 hours/month, payment 60%
• 85–146 hours/month, payment 80%
• 147 hours or more, payment 100%

• The hour limit selection is made for at least three calendar months.
• If the number of hours exceeds the hourly rate used as the basis for invoicing in a month, the early childhood education customer fee corresponding to the actual hourly rate for that month will be charged.
• If the number of hours is exceeded for two consecutive months or every other month, the hourly limit selection will be increased to the hourly step used.
• There is no compensation for falling below the hourly rate.
• The hour limit selection can be changed for a justified reason, e.g. if the work, study or family situation changes.

• Guardians report their child's childcare appointments electronically in DaisyFamily.
• One-week treatment appointments are always locked one week in advance, on the night between Sun and Mon at 00:00.
• Days of absence after the care appointment booking closes will not be refunded to families, but will accumulate hours that will affect billing.
• If the family does not make care time reservations, the family will be billed for the hours according to the selected hourly rate, taking into account the care times actually provided to DaisyFamily.
• Booked early childhood education time consumes the child's monthly hours, even if the child does not attend. The booked and actual time are compared on a daily basis, and the greater of these reduces the number of hours used in the month (e.g. booking 6 hours, child present 7 hours 12 minutes) -> 7 hours 12 minutes are counted or (e.g. booking 7 hours, child present 5 hours 58 minutes) -> 7 hours are counted.
• Any excesses in the monthly early childhood education time will be automatically invoiced according to the actual payment category, so when making reservations, it is a good idea to leave at least a 2-hour grace period for unexpected changes.
• The child's early childhood education time calculator shows you more detailed information about the hours spent.
• Overtime of less than 1 hour is not charged (59 minutes of “free time” / month).
• DaisyFamily will point out any potential overruns in the booking calendar.

• Preschool education is generally provided during school hours for 4 hours a day and is free of charge.
• In addition to preschool, it is possible to book supplementary early childhood education.
• The hours of children in care during school holidays are taken into account in their entirety as care time, excluding four hours of free preschool education.

• When there has been a change in the income information (+/- 6%), family size, need for care, or contact information of a family living in the same household, the family must report the change in writing with attachments immediately after the change occurs.
• Changes related to income, family size and care needs will take effect from the beginning of the following calendar month.

• The family's income and basic information are checked by the city once a year at a separately announced time, generally at the beginning of the operating period.

• If the decision to determine the customer fee was based on incorrect information provided by the customer or their representative, customer fees may be charged retroactively for a period of one year.
• If the City of Riihimäki Early Childhood Education Department has made an error when determining a family's client fee and the error results in a refund for the client, the fee will be corrected retroactively and the overpaid client fee will be returned to the parents/guardians.

• Early childhood education and temporary care are invoiced in arrears during the following month.
• If the family has not made the payment by the due date, the family will be charged annual late payment interest in addition to the payment reminder costs. Payments, including late payment interest, are receivables that can be enforced without a separate application procedure.