The 500 plus program celebrates its seventh birthday this year. Each month, nearly 7 million children benefit. Since the beginning of the project, more than 220 billion PLN has been allocated to families.
The call starts - only via the Internet
We remind you that the recruitment of applications for the next settlement period of the benefit 500 plus starts on 1 February 2023. The money will be paid from 1 June 2023 to 30 May 2024. The date of submission of papers is very crucial in this case and will affect erstwhile we are granted cash.
1 February to 30 April 2023 - ZUS will examine the application and pay the benefit - by 30 June 2023,
1 to 31 May 2023 - ZUS will examine the application and pay the benefit with compensation for June - until 31 July 2023,
1 to 30 June 2023 - ZUS will examine the application and pay the benefit with compensation for June - until 31 August 2023,
1 to 31 July 2023 - ZUS will examine the application and pay the benefit with compensation only from July - until 30 September 2023,
1 to 31 August 2023 - ZUS will examine the application and pay the benefit, with compensation only from August - until 31 October 2023.
It is besides crucial that in order to get the right to an educational provision for a fresh period beginning on 1 June 2023, applications can be submitted to the Social safety Office only via the net through 1 of 3 services:
PUE ZUS portal
portal of the Ministry of household Emp@tia
Electronic banking
500, how about 1,000 plus?
The author of the program 500 plus - Prof. Julian Auleytner - in his last conversation with the Fact stated that the benefit should be much higher - Inflation ate the purchasing power of the benefit and present - played from 2016 - should be PLN 850. However, if you treat a kid as an investment in the future, by limiting another social expenditure you can position this "investment allowance" at the level of PLN 1000" - said Prof. Auletner "Fact".
The diary calculated that in January 2020 the real value of 500 plus dropped to PLN 457.1. The price increase in later years caused that in January 2022 its amount corresponded to PLN 407,28. In December 2022 it was already only PLN 355.61. - specified value should be raised in order to keep its real value at the level of April 2016 erstwhile it entered into force.
Benefits for workers only
In an interview with the Facts, Prof. Julian Auleytner besides stressed that 500 plus should not be revenue-dependent. In his opinion, the choice of drawing money should belong to all working parent, no substance how much he earns. Non-paying taxes would thus have an incentive to do income-generating jobs.
-The full social strategy should be verified, due to the fact that each squad has added something to it for 30 years, which makes it a progenitor alternatively than a motivating 1 – adds the thought of the benefit.
