Take two families – one husband is an executive in a large international company, the wife does not work, have two children at school and kindergarten. An additional 500 zł account probably will not notice, but will get. The second family is a single mother with two children, earning between the median and the national average, the older child in the first year of college, the other in high school. Hunger is not przymierają, but can not afford to study in another city or additional classes in a foreign language … She will not get 500 zł. Do not have the right to feel aggrieved?
Bartosz Marczuk: ‘s reverse way of thinking, and let’s start from the fact that there was never such a broad program of support for families, which is 500 plus. We are introducing a new way of thinking about the family. The conditions that apply to the program, apply to all, exactly the same manner are treated all families: single parents, marriage, informal relationships. And the fact that we pay from the second child without income criterion, stems from a deep reflection, that the key to our demographic development is that we changed the model of the family 2 + 1, which becomes widespread in Poland, on the model of at least 2 + 2. It is to operate on the principle that people who have one child and are wondering whether to have another, not afraid that when they begin to earn a bit more fall out from the scheme. We give information: decide on a second, you will receive a benefit, regardless of income, because time may be better, sometimes worse.
But when the child turns 18, falls out of the system, and the costs its maintenance does not decrease. On the contrary, when the child eg. Start college in another city, even significantly increase.
Again, we need to reverse the reasoning: I have never had such a system, which would support children from birth to 18 years. For 18 years, is paid 500 zł. It is really high provision even for European conditions. To recap, on the occasion of the discussion of allowances in the UK, that there called. child benefit is lower. Parents whose children are approaching 18 years of age, can plan your budget accordingly, knowing that you receive the benefit of the age of 18 years.
I think very few people will get benefit for a child for 18 years, since no criterion we pay to the other until the first is over 18 years old. There is always a difference in age between the children.
This is the talon, but many people have more children. With three young, you can get four a provision even for more than 18 years.
There is probably no point in discussing whether this solution is needed, because studies show that Poles overwhelmingly support them. We should rather ask: what else 500 plus? Many pro-family solutions have been introduced in recent years, but it seems that is still not resolved two issues, perhaps the most important when making decisions about children: the stability of employment and housing. What the government is here for young people to offer?
We need to look back and forward. In previous years, did a lot of things to do. Family policy began in real terms in Poland in 2006. I was co-author of the program family policy, which introduced when the first government of Law and Justice. Many things could not finish, because in 2007. Ended term, but was introduced, among others, relief for children.
Then I managed to make another thing: the annual parental leave, Card Large Family, dissemination of family allowance, propagation of education in preschool and kindergarten for the zloty, the program “Toddler” supporting the opening of nurseries, providing parental or 1 thousand. zł for uninsured for the first year of life. And here the important declaration: none of the good stuff is not withdrawn. It is not that either 500 zł per child, or other solutions. While it is true what NIK wrote in 2015 .: You can not say that this action is a whole system of family policy. They were more activities carried out under the spur of the moment, some event or some pressure environment.
In contrast, looking forward, pulling a reflection of the NIK report, you need to create an entire, horizontal program of demographic policy. Deputy Mateusz Morawiecki in its plan defines it as a comprehensive demographic program. We want to cope with this task. It will probably be written out for the next 2-3 years, until 2019.
This is, among others, the issue of housing, but here I am not well addressed, because even if we as a family resort that we coordinate, the housing issues we will certainly delegate to the experts in the Ministry of Infrastructure. We can at most offer some solutions, say for example. That in Poland we have a very high rate of nesting, or length of residence of young people to their parents.
The labor market is our competence, although here we must remember that we are in a rather specific situation, when the employment rate improves.
But it’s not just a job, or lack thereof, also a form of employment. It is more difficult to decide to have children, working on the so-called. śmieciówce.
Also, forms of employment will change as the market situation will be better. This is evident even in the latest CSO data. We introduced another instrument – came recently two laws: ws. Oskładkowania term agreements and contracts-orders. Young people will also be wkraczało the labor market less and employers will have to begin to compete with the employee.
There is another issue that needs to be very solid deal – institutional care. That parents have easy access mainly to kindergarten, but also organize care for younger children. Those who criticize the program 500 plus, often suggest that these funds should be allocated to institutional care, but they forget that we are still continuing the program “Toddler” and when it comes to kindergarten, it is getting better: this school year the municipality had obliged to accept the four-year, in 2017. they will be required to take three year olds. In a short time all parents who want to enroll children to the nursery, will not have this trouble.
After less than two months since the introduction we can assess how works the mechanism penny for penny ( whereby the threshold of entitlement to family benefits, they are not only received reduced)?
with these criteria, which are family benefits (lower than the 500 plus), which are also less common you can say that to some extent works. We also, however, a lot of votes from officials who pay them, it causes them a lot of trouble. There is a growing number of beneficiaries, there are more applications for consideration. But it is too early to definitely assess this solution
A provision of parenting? Is very popular?
Yes, there is a lot involved. I rate it good solution, because it is very fair – also applies to the uninsured, and there is no reason to differentiate their children; It can also cause people considering abortion abandon this idea, knowing that they will have financial security, although the first year of life. This is a great value.
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