Family support package to cost hundreds of millions: Kowalczyk

The support package for families being prepared by the government will cost several hundred million PLN, the Head of the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers Henryk Kowalski stated in an interview with Radio Zet. He noted that the prime minister has set up an interministerial team to develop a draft of the “Za Życiem” government program of support for families. Asked about the nature of the assistance envisaged by the program, Kowalczyk said: “It will have various elements, it will be both financial assistance and, above all, such assistance that if someone gives birth to a sick child, she will not be forced to be heroic. The anti-abortion bill was not properly prepared. It did not include a support package and that was its drawback. We are returning to the protection of life, but this time with a support package.”