Sociálna poisťovňa (SP) will stop paying the parental pension to those beneficiaries who have already received it from next year. It will be replaced by the allocation of a share of the tax paid, which SP will pay for the first time in 2026. This results from the approved package of consolidation measures. SP spokesman Martin Kontúr informed about this on Tuesday.
“Compensation of the parental pension is the assignment of a share of the tax paid. Children will be able to remit to each parent who is a pensioner a share of the tax paid in the amount of two percent for each parent“, said Kontúr. SP will remit the share of the paid tax to the recipient based on the notification of the Financial Directorate of the Slovak Republic. According to the new legislation, in 2026 SP will remit to the pension recipients the share of the tax paid for the year 2025.
The spokesman added that SP does not need to deliver statements for the purpose of entitlement to parental pension, such as, for example, not agreeing to the payment of the parental pension to the parent, i.e. redirecting it.
If the right to parental pension arose before December 31 of this year, SP will assess it according to the Social Insurance Act. “This means that if SP grants the insured a relevant pension retroactively, together with the grant of the pension, it will assess the entitlement to a parental pension,” explained Kontúr, stating that, for example, in 2025, SP will grant the insured an old-age pension from 2023. Along with granting the old-age pension, it will also assess the right to a parental pension for the years 2023 and 2024.
