3.78 mln children receiving 500 plus benefits: Rafalska

The Minister of Family, Labor, and Social Policy Elżbieta Rafalska has informed that 3.78 million children are receiving the 500 plus supplement, and that after six full months PLN 11.3 billion has been transferred to families.

During Thursday's Sejm debate on the Family 500 plus program, Rafalska reported that the number of first or only children covered by the provision, after fulfilment of the income criterion, is 1.59 million. The number of second and subsequent children receiving benefits is 2.19 million.  Nearly 39 percent of children covered by the program live in urban areas and over 36 percent in rural parts of the country; the remaining 25 percent are from mixed urban-rural areas. Altogether, the Family 500 plus program covers 55 percent of all children under the age of 18.