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Poland’s President stops law on child benefit for Ukrainians
Ukraine refugees receive the same social benefits in Poland as Polish families. This should end, the president says. The payments should only get who has work.
With his veto, Poland’s right-wing conservative President Karol Nawrocki has stopped a draft law to extend social benefits for Ukraine refugees. He was convinced that only those refugees should receive these benefits who had work in Poland, Nawrocki justified his decision. The present law does not reflect the social debate on this topic.
In Poland, Ukrainian citizens with protection status are entitled to the equivalent of 180 euros child benefit per child. For the second and another child there is still a childcare allowance of 117 euros a month during the first two years. In addition, the refugees have free access to the education system and health care. With this they are equal to Polish families.
The draft law adopted with the voices of the middle-left coalition of Prime Minister Donald Tusk stipulated that the refugees should continue to receive these social benefits until March 2026.
President on the confrontation course to government
In Poland, President Nawrocki and Prime Minister Tusk belong to political camps. Nawrocki is close to the right -wing conservative opposition party PIS. He has already announced that he wants to torpedo the policy of Tusk’s Proeuropean government. The PIS would like to make the payment of social benefits to Ukraine refugees dependent on their employment. The employment rate among the refugees is 65 percent in Poland – just under twice as high as in Germany. A total of around 989,000 Ukrainian citizens live in Poland with protection status.
There is basically no civil allowance for adults without disabilities that cannot or do not want to work in Poland – unlike in Germany.
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Source: Stern
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