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April 01, 2021 Tomasz Gzell/PAP
Polish families have received PLN 144 billion (EUR 31.1 billion) in monthly benefits since the start of the government s Family 500 Plus child support programme, the family minister has told PAP.
Launched in April 2016, the government s Family 500 Plus programme offers PLN 500 (EUR 108) monthly per every child under 18 in a family. Some 6.6 million children benefit from the programme.
Marlena Malag told PAP that thanks to the programme, a new child in a family is no longer the main reason of family impoverishment.
Malag also said the scheme is the biggest social programme, on an unprecedented scale, that has changed the lives of many Polish families and in many cases restored their dignity.