Conditions for Obtaining the Parental Supplementary Benefit

Abstract

On 1 March 2019 the Act of 31 January 2019 on the Parental Supplementary Benefit came into force. As it’s indicated in Art. 2 of the Act, the aim of this benefit is providing essential maintenance to persons who resigned from employment or another paid activity, either persons who didn’t take employment or another paid activity because of bringing up children. The study describes conditions for obtaining the parental supplementary benefit. Those are: premise of maternity or paternity, requirement of age, criterion of income, term of centre of vital interest. The elaboration analyses also the issue of the parental supplementary benefit’s recipient deprivation of liberty or provisional detention.