A Children in Care Allowance - Foster Care Service is awarded to authorised foster carers providing a foster care service to a child.
Moreover, this allowance is paid until a child reaches twenty-one (21) years of age.
For information regarding cross-border situations please click here.
The payment for this allowance is issued every thirteen (13) weeks in advance.
When foster parents of a fostered child decide to adopt this same child, the Foster Care Allowance will be gradually stopped over a period of four (4) years, or until the child reaches twenty-one (21) years of age, whichever comes first. In such circumstances, in the subsequent first year of adoption, eighty (80%) of the Foster Care Allowance will continue to be paid, sixty (60%) will be paid for the second year, forty (40%) in the third year and twenty (20%) for the fourth year.
Please click here for a Schedule of Benefits Rates.
Documentation required
Fill in and submit the application online.
The application must be submitted within six (6) months from initialization of fostering as stipulated by the Social Security Act (Cap. 318.). The allowance, or part of it, may be forfeited if the application is submitted late.
Department of Social Security
Ordnance Street
38,
Department of Social Security
VALLETTA [Il-Belt Valletta (Ċittà Umilissima)]
VLT 1021
MALTA
153
Department of Social Security
Ordnance Street
38,
Department of Social Security
VALLETTA [Il-Belt Valletta (Ċittà Umilissima)]
VLT 1021
MALTA
153
Department of Social Security
Ordnance Street
38,
Department of Social Security
VALLETTA [Il-Belt Valletta (Ċittà Umilissima)]
VLT 1021
MALTA
153
Department of Social Security
Ordnance Street
38,
Department of Social Security
VALLETTA [Il-Belt Valletta (Ċittà Umilissima)]
VLT 1021
MALTA
153
