Municipal governments to receive additional funds for 500+ program

"The 500+ project is being implemented according to schedule and will come to life in April," the Minister of Labor and Social Policy Elżbieta Rafalska announced on Thursday morning. She also said that municipal governments will be the ones tasked with distributing the financial aid to citizens. "[They] will surely manage to accomplish this task," she added. "They will receive the appropriate funds to ensure that they can [do this]." The cost of the 500+ program is estimated to be 22 billion PLN in 2016; it consists of giving 500 PLN in financial support to all families for their second child (and corresponding additional aid for any further children), and also, in the case of very low-income families, for the first child.