The child benefit paid up to the child’s age of one year and a half to socially uninsured persons and the minimum monthly child benefit up to the age of three paid to socially insured persons were raised by 10% following amendments made by the Government to the Law on Allowances for Temporary Incapacity for Work and other Social Benefits, IPN reports.

Thus, the minimum child benefit will be 440 lei. The given amendments will be applied retroactively, starting with October 1, 2015.

The Cabinet also amended the regulations concerning the method of setting and paying allowances intended for families with children. Under the amendments, if the child was born on the territory of another state, the applicants for such allowances, except for the persons working in Moldova, must present an own responsibility statement to the local subdivisions of the National House of Social Insurance to confirm that they didn’t receive an allowance in the given state.

The changes were made following requests from parents, who said that to confirm that they didn’t benefit from allowances, they need to go abroad and have to spend time and money, while some of the states do not even provide such allowances.