Lithuania to start paying child benefit to Most Kids next year – The Baltic Times

VILNIUS – All Of Lithuanian kids will each receive a monthly benefit of between 30 and 58.5 euros second year.

The measure had been passed by the parliament on Tuesday with 15 abstentions in a vote of 80 to one.

Some 30 euros in the so-called “kid money” will be paid monthly to each child below the age of 18 decades, or 21 if he or she’s a pupil, regardless of their parents’ income.

A family with many children will be paid some extra money and will be given a total of 58.5 euros per child aged up to 2 decades and 45.2 euros per child over two. The adjustments will be paid to families whose income per member doesn’t exceed 183 euros.

At present, only low-income parents and people with many children are eligible for “kid money”. Such parents receive 28.5 euros per month per child under two decades and 15.2 euros per child aged between 2 and 18 decades.

The parliament fought the income tax threshold for all parents. The threshold is set at 200 euros.

“This is kids’s money, not parents’ money,” Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis told reporters on Tuesday when working on the measure.

Skvernelis anticipates next year the child benefit is going to be raised and increases to 100 euros in the future.

“I feel this is an investment. If we managed to achieve at least 100 euros in the so-called kid money, it could be a significant boost to all families raising kids,” the ministry said.

“And it might be a biased variable — I am not even saying a crucial factor — in achieving a specific demographic breakthrough,” he further added.

source http://www.the-childrens-guide.com/lithuania-to-start-paying-child-benefit-to-most-kids-next-year-the-baltic-times/