Applications for the “Good Start” benefit may be submitted online beginning on 1 July. Until today, Polish citizens have submitted over a million applications for the benefit. Please note that important changes are pending this year. Last Tuesday, the Council of Ministers has passed a draft of a new regulation extending the scope of persons who are eligible to receive the benefit, the list now includes adults and post-secondary school students. The changes shall enter into force in August.

If I live with my family abroad, but my place of domicile is in Poland, am I entitled to get the “500+” child benefit? The answer is only one - no. You must live in Poland in order to receive the benefit. The only exception is when one parent lives in Poland with children, and the other works abroad - provided that the other parent does not receive a full amount of a similar benefit for the same children in another country.

Social assistance, aid for senior citizens and families, health and safety at work - these and other issues were discussed by Deputy Minister Kazimierz Kuberski with representatives of the National People’s Congress Social Development Affairs Committee.

According to the latest Eurostat survey, in April this year, the unemployment rate in Poland was 3.7 percent - 0.1 percentage point less than in the month before. This is much below the European average, which in April, was 7.6 percent in the euro area and 6.4 percent EU-wide, seasonally-adjusted. “This is a very good result and great news”, says the Minister of Family, Labour and Social Policy Bożena Borys-Szopa.

More than 3.5 years of work of the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy is a period of revolutionary changes in family-oriented activities and a considerable improvement of the situation on the labour market.

On Tuesday, at the request of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, President Andrzej Duda appointed Bożena Borys-Szopa as Minister for Family, Labour and Social Policy. She replaced in this position Elżbieta Rafalska, who obtained a mandate to the European Parliament.

Minister Elżbieta Rafalska and senior personnel of the Ministry welcomed the new Minister of Family, Labour and Social Policy, Bożena Borys-Szopa.

Cheaper, easier and safer – the Toddler+ program allows all children in Poland, including those in need of special care, to enjoy new places in day nurseries and children’s clubs.

Supplementary funding of rehabilitation camps, subsidy to an artificial limb, hearing aid, wheelchair, electronic equipment or financial support during studies – disabled persons may individually apply for financial aid from the State Fund for the Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons.