However, a cash-for-care payment may be made to parents taking care of a child until he/she reaches his or her third birthday. In Sweden, a municipal child-raising allowance (“vardnadsbidrag”) was reinstituted since 2008 on top of the statutory period of leave. Since 2009, the country’s municipalities have been able to choose whether or not to allocate benefit to parents with a child of between one and three years old who do not use publicly funded childcare services and who have already used 250 days of parental leave to care for the child.