Reduced fees for municipal daycare centres
If your child attends a municipal day care centre, you can apply for a reduction in day care centre fees under certain conditions.
Description
The nursery fee consists of the attendance fee and the meal charge. Under certain circumstances, the meal charge and/or the attendance fee may be reduced. For nursery children attending a municipal nursery, you do not usually have to pay an attendance fee. Exceptions are listed in the ‘Nursery Fees Brochure’. In this case, you do not need to apply for a reduction either.
Requirements
You can apply for a reduction in fees if any of the following conditions apply to you:
- Your gross annual income is less than 80,000 euros. In that case, you can apply for a reduction in the attendance fee. This applies for one financial year (1 September to 31 August). We generally use the income from the year before last to calculate this.
- You receive child benefit for older siblings. If you have more than one child, you can apply for a so-called ‘sibling discount’ on the attendance fee.
- You are in a social and educational emergency situation. The childcare fees and meal allowance may be covered in full or in part for one nursery year. The application for this is submitted by the District Social Services (BSA) at the Munich Social Services Centres.
- You are currently receiving social security benefits. If you or another person with parental responsibility in your household receives basic income support, social assistance, housing benefit, child supplement or asylum seeker’s benefits, you do not have to pay nursery fees. However, you must submit an application to the Central Fees Office.
- You are fostering a child and receive a fostering allowance. If the City Youth Welfare Office pays you a fostering allowance, you do not have to pay any visitation fees or meal allowances for your foster child. You must submit an application for this. As proof, you must provide the notification of the fostering allowance.
- You live in shared accommodation. If you live in shared accommodation under Section 53 of the Asylum Act, you do not have to pay a visitation fee for your child. When applying, you must provide proof that you live in the shared accommodation.
- You live in shared accommodation for mothers*fathers and children or in a women’s refuge. If you live in one of these facilities, you do not have to pay any visiting fees or meal allowances. You must provide proof that you live there when submitting your application.
- You are applying for financial assistance under the Youth Welfare Scheme. For some people, nursery fees represent too great a financial burden. These people are therefore entitled to financial assistance under the Youth Welfare Scheme (WJH). Examples of such financial burdens include loan repayments, maintenance payments or moving costs. Before you can apply for these benefits, you will need a notice of charges for the nursery fees.
Required documents
You can submit your application for a fee reduction online via kitafinder+
- Initial application upon your child’s first enrolment at the nursery: If you wish to apply for a fee reduction, you can submit your application online via the kitafinder+ parents’ portal. You should first carry out a self-assessment of your income. You can then complete the online application for a reduction. You can upload the required documents directly via kitafinder+ to finalise your application.
- Follow-up application for the new nursery year: If your child already attends a nursery, you can also submit the so-called ‘follow-up application’ online via the kita finder+ parents’ portal.
- Important:
- In the current brochure on nursery fees, you will find an overview of all the other documents you need for the application.
- You can view your applications at any time via the kita finder+ parents’ portal.
- Communication with the Central Fees Office also takes place online via the parents’ portal.
- You can submit applications online or print them out and send them by post. It is best to submit your application online. You can do this via the ‘kita finder+’ page on the parents’ portal. This allows us to process your application more quickly and efficiently. You can also submit all the necessary supporting documents online there. Please only submit your application by post if there is absolutely no other option. Paper application forms are still available from your nursery management.
- You must submit your application either by post or online. You must not do both!
Questions & Answers
Nursery fees are always due on the 20th of the following month. The fees that were debited in September relate to the month of August.
No. It is not possible to leave on 31 July.
The monthly meal allowance is 105 euros in all nurseries.
When calculating the monthly meal fee, we have already taken into account an average of two months’ absence. That amounts to around 42 meal days in the nursery year. However, if your child is absent from the nursery for more than 42 days, you can apply for a refund for the meals not taken. You can obtain the application form and further information directly from the nursery where your child is looked after.
If your child has attended the nursery for the whole year, you can submit the application by 30 September. If your child leaves the nursery during the year, you have until the end of the second month following their departure.
Yes, if you have more than one child, you can apply for a sibling discount on the attendance fee. Please refer to our brochure ‘Daycare Fees’ for the conditions and what you need to do (see the attachment on this page).
Yes. The application for a fee reduction must be resubmitted for each nursery year.
No. The tax office usually accepts the fee notice and bank statements as proof.
No. However, you can show your employer the fee notice.
It may be that the reduction has been offset against other outstanding debts. Please contact the Munich City Treasury to clarify this.
Please contact the Munich City Treasury with this enquiry.
Legal basis
Regulations on Fees for Child Day Care Facilities; Bavarian Child Education and Care Act (BayKiBiG); Section 90 of Book VIII of the Social Code (SGB VIII); Education and Participation Package
Contact
Referat für Bildung und Sport
Geschäftsbereich KITA
Zentrale Gebührenstelle
Landeshauptstadt München
Website
Telephone
Postal address
Landeshauptstadt München
Referat für Bildung und Sport
Geschäftsbereich KITA
Zentrale Gebührenstelle
Bayerstraße 28
80335 München
Fax: +49 89 233-84494
Address
Landsberger Straße 30
80339 München
A personal consultation at Landsberger Straße 30 is only possible by appointment. We will be happy to advise you by telephone. Please refer to the letters or notifications from the Central Fees Office for the telephone number and the individual personal consultation hours of your responsible caseworker. Your childcare centre will also be happy to provide you with this information. For a personal consultation on site, please make an appointment with your responsible administrator.