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Funding Poland's child allowance programme

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Nick Hodge 17.11.2015 16:07
  • Solving the child allowance conundrum
Poland's freshly appointed government is now looking for ways to fulfil its election promises.

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A programme proposed by the victorious Law and Justice party to provide PLN 500 (EUR 120) per month per child, starting with the second child in every family, is a priority of the new government, Chairman of the Government Standing Committee Henryk Kowalczyk told Polish Radio on Tuesday.

Finance minister Paweł Szałamacha said last week that the government aims to increase VAT collection to finance its election promise.

Poland has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world and new incentives to encourage more births are desperately needed, but is the programme enough to get Polish women to have more children?

“The idea of giving money transfers to families is a good idea, however they cannot be the only solution,” analyst Aleksandra Niżyńska of the Gender Equality Observatory, an initiative of the Institute of Public Affairs, said in an interview with Radio Poland’s Agnieszka Łaszczuk.

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