Regular child protection allowance and the related
establishment of disadvantaged and multiply disadvantaged status
Regular child protection allowance
Who is eligible:
– The monthly per capita income in the family caring for the child does not exceed 245% of the social base amount (HUF 69,825), and
– the child is cared for by a single parent or another legal representative, or
– the child is chronically ill or severely disabled, or
– the child who has come of age meets the conditions set out in Section 20 (2); 225% of the social base amount (HUF 64,125)
provided that, when assessing the financial situation, the per capita value of assets does not exceed the specified limits, either separately or together.
For a child eligible for the regular child protection allowance, a relative appointed as the child’s foster guardian is entitled to a supplementary cash benefit if they are obliged to support the child and receive a pension, pre-retirement benefit, service allowance, dance artist’s life annuity, temporary miners’ annuity, benefits for persons with reduced work capacity, old-age allowance, or a benefit covered by the legislation on increasing pension-like regular social benefits.
Further information on the eligibility conditions for the support and the documents to be attached is available in the information section at the end of the application form.
Documents to be submitted:
– The form set out in Annex 3 of Government Decree 149/1997 (IX.10.), together with the relevant certificates.
– In case of the child’s placement or temporary placement, or the appointment of a guardian, the court or guardianship authority decision on the matter, and the minutes specified in Section 18 (2) of Government Decree 149/1997 (IX.10.).
– A certificate from the educational institution of student status in full-time education.
– Proof of the family’s income for the month preceding the application.
– For single applicants, a certificate of single status.
– In the case regulated in Section 19 (2) a) ab) of the Gyvt., a certificate of the child’s chronic illness or severe disability.
Legal background:
On social administration and social benefits: Act III of 1993
On the protection of children and guardianship administration: Act XXXI of 1997
Government Decree 149/1997 (IX.10.) on guardianship authorities and on child protection and guardianship procedures
establishment of disadvantaged and multiply disadvantaged status
A child or child who has come of age who is eligible for the regular child protection allowance is disadvantaged if one of the following circumstances applies:
a) a the parent or foster guardian has a low level of education, if it can be established – based on their voluntary declaration – that both parents raising the child together, the parent raising the child alone, or the foster guardian, at the time of applying for the regular child protection allowance, has at most primary education,
b) a the parent or foster guardian has low employment, if it can be established that either parent raising the child or the foster guardian, at the time of applying for the regular child protection allowance, is entitled to the benefit for people of active age under Section 33 of the Szt., or within the 16 months before applying for the regular child protection allowance was registered as a jobseeker for at least 12 months,
c) a the child’s inadequate living environmentor housing conditions, if it can be established that the child lives in a living environment declared a segregated area in the town’s integrated urban development strategy, or in a semi-comfort, no-comfort or emergency dwelling, or in housing conditions where the conditions needed for healthy development are only partly ensured.
A child or child who has come of age who is eligible for the regular child protection allowance is multiply disadvantaged if at least two of the circumstances defined above apply.
When deciding on eligibility for the regular child protection allowance, the notary – upon request, in a separate decision, for the same period as the eligibility for the regular child protection allowance – also establishes whether the child or the child who has come of age is disadvantaged or multiply disadvantaged.
Further information on the eligibility conditions for the support and the documents to be attached is available in the information section at the end of the application form.
Legal background: Act XXXI of 1997, Section 67/A
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