If you and your partner have joint children and separate, maintenance should be paid. In cases where you cannot agree, the Social Insurance Office steps in and pays maintenance support to one parent.
The money can also be paid by the authority if one parent does not have adequate ability to pay.
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The Social Insurance Agency: How maintenance works
Once the Social Insurance Office pays the support to your child, you must then pay all or part of it to them. But how much you could possibly have to pay depends on several aspects, including how many children you have and what annual income you had during the previous income year.
“At the end of each year we will send a letter to you where it says what amount you will pay for next year. The letter states how we have calculated and what information is the basis for the calculation. You then have the opportunity to comment on the information before we make a decision. This way you can possibly affect the amount you will pay from next year, ”the insurance fund writes on your own The website.
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So the Social Insurance Office calculates your maintenance
When the authority itself calculates what you have to pay, they always deduct SEK 120,000 from your annual income, which is the amount you can keep in order for you to support yourself.
Subsequently, the amount that is left over is multiplied by a percentage that is governed by how many children you have. Thereafter, the amount remains with 12 to get what you will pay per month, says the Swedish Social Insurance Agency.
It is important to carry that the amount you have to pay in maintenance will never be higher than what the Social Insurance Office itself pays in maintenance support.
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So much you will pay in maintenance
How much you have to pay is different from person to person.
An example calculation may, according to the Social Insurance Agency, look as follows:
Let’s say you have an annual income of SEK 500,000 and that the Swedish Social Insurance Agency deducts SEK 120,000 that you should have for your own livelihood, then SEK 380,000 remains.
You also have two children and will therefore pay 11.5 percent of your remaining SEK 380,000. There will be SEK 31,667 in the full year.
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