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Polish president approves child benefit hike from 2024

07.08.2023 17:45
Poland’s president has signed into effect the increase of the country’s flagship “Family 500+” child benefit, by PLN 300 (EUR 68) to PLN 800 (EUR 181) from next year.
Polish President Andrzej Duda (right) signs into law an increase in the countrys child benefit, accompanied by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (centre) and Family and Social Policy Minister Marlena Maląg (left) in the central town of Tarczyn, on Monday, August 7, 2023.
Polish President Andrzej Duda (right) signs into law an increase in the country's child benefit, accompanied by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (centre) and Family and Social Policy Minister Marlena Maląg (left) in the central town of Tarczyn, on Monday, August 7, 2023.Twitter/Office of the President of Poland

Andrzej Duda signed the EUR 5.4 billion plan into law at a ceremony in the central town of Tarczyn on Monday, Polish state news agency PAP reported.

The president was accompanied by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Family and Social Policy Minister Marlena Maląg.

Introduced by Poland’s ruling conservatives Law and Justice (PiS) in 2016, the measure, originally named Family 500+, and now set to be renamed Family 800+, is a universal monthly benefit available to all children from birth until they turn 18, according to officials.

As of January 1, 2024, it will rise to PLN 800 (EUR 181), the PAP news agency reported.

After signing off on its expansion, Duda said: “Poland needs to develop, socially as well as demographically. Family is the biggest mainstay for future development.”

The president added: “The increase in child benefit is an investment.”

He said that “an investment in a person, in society, in the family, in children” was the best there could be, the PAP news agency reported.

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Source: IAR, PAP