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Children's Allowance

The document discusses child benefit programs in various countries. It provides details on monthly payment amounts for children in countries like Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Germany, and Romania. It also discusses eligibility criteria and concerns about some families relying solely on child benefits and social welfare programs.

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Children's Allowance

The document discusses child benefit programs in various countries. It provides details on monthly payment amounts for children in countries like Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Germany, and Romania. It also discusses eligibility criteria and concerns about some families relying solely on child benefits and social welfare programs.

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Child Benefit

Child benefit or childrens allowance is a social security payment which is distributed to the parents or
guardians of children, teenagers and in some cases, young adults.
In the majority of countries child benefit is means-tested, meaning that a process is done to find out the amount
of money a person has in order to see if that person qualifies for government assistance, and the amount of child
benefit paid is usually dependent on the number of children you have.
Other conditions for receiving child benefit are:

enrolling children into schools


health check-ups
vaccinations

The countries in Europe with high payments per no of children are:


In Liechtenstein for 1 child the payment is 215 /per month, for twins or over 3 children 260 /per month and
from ten age and more is 260 /per month.
In Luxembourg for 1 child the payment is 185 /per month, 2 children 440 /per month, 3 children 803 /per
month, 4 children and more 362 /per month
In Germany for 1 child is 184 /per month, 2 children 368 /per month, 3 children 558 /per month and for an
additional child the amount is 215 /per month.
Italy has a different system of the way money are distributed that is: for parents whose annual income is up to
11,422 a child will receive 250 /per month; for parents whose annual income is between 27.700 and 30.000
the money received for a child is 39 /per month and from 44.000 annual income there is no more payments.
Child benefit in Romania is given by the Romanian Ministry of Labor, Family and Social Protection. The
system is funded from the state budget. Maternity care is free in Romania. As soon as mothers give birth, they
are entitled to vacation time and receive aid which amounts to 75% of their net income without a limit being set.
After the age of two, children receive an allowance up until the age of 18, although they must attend school in
order to be eligible.
In Romania until this year a child would have received 9.42 /per month and now the amount has doubled
which is 18.84 /per month higher than Greece taht for a child the money is 5.87 /per month.
Most countries give childrens allowance to children whose parents are working there. In European Union it is
called European Allowance. In Japan the child benefit system is called Kodomo Teate Law that grants 100
/per month to parents with children up to the age of fifteen. The Ministry said that if foreigner parents living
with their child in Japan were eligible to receive Kodomo teate, regardless of nationality. In case if the parents
are living in Japan while their child is living abroad still the parents will receive Kodomo teate allowance based
on certain conditions. In such a case the parents have to declare whether the child is their own or an adopted
one. In addition to this, either of the parent must visit the child (who is staying overseas) at least twice a year
and must remit money at least every 4 months to be eligible to receive Kodomo Teate. It was reported that a
Korean man in his fifties visited Amagasaki city hall and applied for help for 554 children. The bureaucrat
refused his proposal, arguing that he was not actually nurturing them. Another city staff member said the man

had visited city hall on 22 April, claiming his wife was from Thailand and had adopted 554 children in
Thailand.
Unfortunately, in Romania there are families that rely only their childrens allowance and social welfare ,which
mostly encourages unemployment, and their arguments are that they arent qualified to work, or dont have
where to work or even worse dont want to work. This seems to be wrong.
Moreover, there has been a discussion in Ireland that not every child in Ireland gets childrens allowance due to
immigration policy. Until 1 May 2004, all children living in the State received Child Benefit monthly, regardless
of family income or immigration status. Then, in response to the enlargement of the European Union, the
government introduced the Habitual Residence Condition (HRC).This is a condition which must be met by
certain people seeking certain social welfare payments, including Child Benefit; and it effectively ended the
previous policy of universality in relation to that payment for children. The HRC, which was originally
introduced to control the flow of EU workers into Ireland, is now impacting hardest on families living in
vulnerable situations and especially their children. It places immigration policy requirements above the rights
of children and makes childrens rights dependent on their parents situation.Examples of people adversely
affected include:
families where parents are not permitted to work, such as people awaiting a decision on their residence application,
including asylum seekers;
parents who are non-Irish nationals with no record of work in Ireland, including migrant workers who have been
working in Ireland but who, through employer exploitation, have become undocumented, e.g. where the employer has
not paid their tax or social insurance;
parents working here for less than two years who cannot demonstrate a centre of interest in Ireland nor previous EU
work experience.

Children living within Ireland are treated in an unequal and discriminatory way based on their parents
nationality and residency status. This resulting in The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, signed and
ratified by Ireland, provides that States Parties - the countries which have signed up the agreement - must
respect and ensure the rights of children, including the right to benefit from social security, without
discrimination. The Convention also holds that all actions which impact on children must put the best interests
of the child first.

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