PLN 500 for every child - PiS' flagship project

Polish daily Dziennik Gazeta Prawna has revealed details of the flagship project put forward by Law and Justice (PiS) during the electoral campaign. The party plans to hand out PLN 500 for every child in a family whose per capita income is lower than PLN 800 and for every second and subsequent child, regardless of family income. The benefit would be paid out each month until a child reaches 18 years old. The project stipulates that the income threshold for the first child might be raised after two years of the act validity. The daily said that the law would be introduced at the beginning of 2016 and the first payments will be made in April 2016. According to PiS, as many as 3.6 million families will be eligible for the subsidy and it will cost PLN 22 billion a year.