The support may be granted if the family caring for the child, with a registered address in District VII and actually living at that address, is temporarily struggling with subsistence problems or faces an extraordinary life situation threatening subsistence, and the monthly per capita income in the family caring for the child does not exceed HUF 190,950.
Eligible for support are children, children under 23 without their own income in full-time education, and children under 25 without their own income enrolled in higher education.
Subsistence problems or extraordinary life situations threatening subsistence include, in particular, the life situations under Section 45 (4) of Act III of 1993 on social administration and social benefits, as well as other reasons arising when the application is examined that cannot be addressed in any other way.
Such life situations deserving special consideration are:
a) purchasing or repairing a medical aid for the child, or replacing an accessory needed for it to work,
b) a contribution to the child’s periodic medicine and treatment costs;
c) providing complementary feeding alongside breast milk from age 0 to 3, or a special diet from age 3 to 18, or if the child can only be fed with formula or nutritional supplements.
d) a contribution to costs related to the child’s nursery placement or kindergarten education.
e) a contribution to buying seasonal clothing.
Applications for support can be submitted once a year under points c)–d) of paragraph (6), and three times a year under point e).
For applications under points a)–b), the support can be granted on submission of a specialist’s opinion and a price quote, and under point c) on submission of a doctor’s or specialist’s opinion; the amount of support may cover the proven costs, but may not exceed the maximum amount per child set out in the decree.
Under point e), an application for support may be submitted at most three times in a calendar year, provided that at least three months pass between applications, and the amount of the support may be up to 1/3 of the annual budget.
For applications under point d), the support is up to HUF 25 000 per child.
The annual amount of the support is up to HUF 120,000 per child.
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: Local Government Decree 6/2016 (II.18.), Section 11
Related forms
Application for local child protection support
Social and Health Department
Address: 1076 Budapest, Garay utca 5
Head of Department: Ákos Szegény
Email: human@erzsebetvaros.hu