Work has been underway for over a year on the material honouring and support of this group of citizens, who are committed to defending and protecting the state and society. Thus, Poland intends to join countries whose authorities realize that caring for soldiers and officers affects the morale of troops and services and the number of volunteers to service in them.
The bill on the Uniform household Charter provides for a strategy of collective transport reliefs, in passport fees, in the offer of public and private partners (on principles akin to the large household Charter) and facilitation of wellness care and preferences in the education strategy – due to the fact that for frequent changes in the place of residence resulting from service transfers they “pay” besides the children of a soldier or an officer.
According to 1 common definition, the household is simply a group of people connected by kinship or affinity. The "Military Family" Association, which brought together wives, mothers and daughters of professional soldiers for activation and integration in peace, appealed to this concept during the interwar period. During the war, his goal was to “organise the best possible material aid and thus remove the concern for regular bread from the shoulders of the Polish soldier and safe his household fire”. In this example, we see that a 100 years ago, it was believed that the bonds of kinship had 3 generations.
‘Unified family’
Since 2025, in connection with work on the bill, a career in the media has been made by the phrase "a uniform family". In the parliamentary draft of the bill (Sejma printing No 1964), this concept was not defined, but described by the indication of the social groups that this law will cover. It can be preliminarily assumed that the "unified family" is simply a broader concept than the "military family" and should include, due to the name, soldiers and officers of uniformed services, but the devil, as usual, is in the details. This is due to the fact that the bill concerns "people in uniform" from institutions and formations subordinate to the Ministry of Defence (Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland) and the Ministry of Interior and Administration (Police, Border Guard, State safety Service and State Fire Department) and erstwhile officers of the State Protection Office. This does not apply to services and formations subordinate to another ministers, e.g. Prison Service subordinate to the Minister of Justice or Customs and taxation Service – isolated from the National taxation Administration and coordinated by the Minister of Finance.
Appeal present in the ‘unified family’
Article 4 of the draft law lists the individual groups belonging to the ‘uniform family’ to which the MON includes professional soldiers (except for soldiers of voluntary essential military service during the first 12 months), TSW soldiers, active reserve soldiers, veterans and veterans of the injured, erstwhile soldiers collecting military invalidity pension from the Military Pension Office and their dependent spouses and children. On the another hand, the Ministry of abroad Affairs included police officers, Border Guards, State Fire Service and State Protection Service, erstwhile UOP officers, veterans and veterans injured, officers released from the services entitled to police invalidity pension and their spouses and dependent children. In addition, the ‘uniform family’ includes members of the household of a deceased or missing service officer subject to the Minister of Home Affairs and Administration, entitled to a police household pension.
Appeal absent from the ‘union family’
After carrying out this circumstantial appeal, it is time to make an appeal for those who are absent from this family. According to the 1964 printout, it does not include members of the household of a deceased or fallen soldier, which excludes for example household members The late Sergeant. Matthew Sitka, members of the families of soldiers who lost their lives while performing their duties in the country or died after the completion of professional military service or household members of more than 1 100 and 20 soldiers of the Polish military contingent who died during activities outside the state. Neither are the parents of soldiers and veterans, although their educational effort resulted in military service of sons and daughters to the Polish state. This deficiency of soldiers' parents qualifies the "uniform family" as a category of alleged atomic families (only parents and children, without grandparents, or 2 generations). There is besides a deficiency of the appeal of utilized erstwhile professional soldiers who, after respective decades of service, collect retirement supplies from the Military Pension Offices and their spouses and dependent children. The second besides applies to officers who, at the end of the service, collect a police pension. These groups of soldiers, officers and their families (including parents) were included in the government draft of the bill inactive in April 2025, but later, for unknown reasons, were not included in the draft bill. Both groups, the soldiers and officers who devoted their service to the Polish state for respective decades were treated here on the basis of the barracks saying "Amba Fatima, was and has not been".
First reading of the bill
According to the agenda of the Sejm, the first reading of the Act is due to take place during the second plenary session of the Sejm this year, possibly today, or February 10. It is not essential to hide that the content of these sittings and the speeches of Members will be followed with interest by possible members of the " Uniform Family". I hope (whose parent is this?) that Members will point out the shortcomings noted in this proposal and direct it to further work in the Parliamentary Committee on National Defence and the Parliamentary Committee on the Interior. Adding erstwhile soldiers and officers on the state's pension supply, adding soldiers' and veterans' parents, adding families of fallen soldiers and deceased military pensioners is not a release of privileges, it is simply a designation of their service to the Polish state and giving the word "a uniform family" a appropriate and full meaning. It is besides a evidence to the memory of the Polish state about its soldiers and officers besides after their service was completed.
Both projects did not include officers of the three-letter peculiar services but the UOP. At this point, I would besides like to callback 1 forgotten category of professional soldiers, i.e. private professionals serving contract service, who were released after 12 years of military service under the provisions of the Military Service Act for professional soldiers without any powers.
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