The pension supplement (also known as the birthday allowance) is a universal benefit paid once a year, the month prior to the recipient's birth month.

• The application must be submitted in the year following the determination of the pension. The benefit cannot be claimed in the year of retirement.
• The application can be submitted starting from the month of your birth.
• The application only needs to be submitted once; no further submissions are required.
• The benefit will be paid within 30 days of submitting the application.

For example, if a person retired in 2022, the pension supplement application could be submitted in 2023, starting from the person's birth month.

The pension supplement consists of two parts:

         from financial support (200 euros) and

         of pension supplement benefits

Pension support is paid:

-        to a person whose place of residence in the population register has continually been the City of Tallinn since 1 January of the calendar year preceding the calendar year of the support application,

-        whose data concerning their pension or working ability has been entered into the social protection information system or the database of assessment of working ability and working ability allowance and who has been assigned according to the State Pension Insurance Act:

-        retirement pension,

-        national pension,

-        disability pension,

-        an adult’s survivor’s pension (an 18-24-year-old person who is studying full time in a secondary school, is a stationary student of a vocational training institution or studies full time at a university of applied sciences or university; a widow or a widower whose working ability is reduced or who is of retirement age; a parent whose working ability is reduced; a parent of retirement age; a non-working widow who is expecting a baby),

-        to a person of at least 17 years of age who, according to the Work Ability Support Act, has limited or no ability to work.

In the year the benefit was granted, the beneficiary may use discounts starting from the calendar month following the calendar month in which the pension supplement was paid. In order to receive discounts, the person gives consent to process their personal data.

The support is not paid and discounts are not given to a person whose 24-hour general care service provided outside of home is paid from the budget of the City of Tallinn.

If a person has left the nursing home service, they must submit a new application for the pension supplement in the year following their departure from the general care service in order to receive the pension supplement again.