The minimum inclusion income is the financial support granted by the state to ensure the minimum standard of living for families and single people in a difficult situation, and since the beginning of the year it replaces social aid and the allowance for family support.
Child benefits will increase from January 2024
According to the law, the minimum income for inclusion has two components, the inclusion aid and the aid for families with children, which can reach over 600 lei. The latter is conditioned, however, in addition to the existence of a small net monthly income, of no more than 700 lei for each family member, to the attendance of classes by the school-aged children of that family, “except those who discontinue them for medical reasons.”
At the same time, in exchange for the aid, the parents must perform work for the municipality in the amount of the aid, at the rate of the minimum wage in the economy, and look for a job through the territorial employment agencies. “They can't get help if they're offered a job or a training course and they refuse it,” it is shown in the document.
The regulation also shows that the amount of the aid is reduced depending on the number of absences if the family's children are absent from school. Thus, the aid is reduced by 50% of the amount due to each child in the family, for the month in which he records more than 15 unexcused absences, and is canceled in the month in which the child records more than 30 unexcused absences.
Then, the aid is also canceled during the period in which the child interrupts the school year or if it remains repetitive, except in situations where the two events were caused by medical reasons.
The Ministry of Education recently published the model of the document by which this condition of attendance at classes is verified and established details on how this is done. Thus, the county school inspectorate, respectively that of the municipality of Bucharest, to which the beneficiary of the aid for families with children belongs, with the domicile, has the obligation to send monthly to the agency for payments and social inspection the situation regarding the attendance of classes by school-age children from these families .
Gabriel Chicioreanu, from the National Federation of Parents – Edupart, said that the measure is a good one because it lowers the school dropout rate.
“The social surveys must be done according to the book, because that's the only way the money will be invested in children's education. If you want my opinion, the implementation of the “hot meal” program would have a similar effect, children would no longer miss school. However, we have a problem at the gymnasium, where teenagers are enticed to work in the fields, for example, instead of school. He earns more money than on allowances,” stated Gabriel Chicioreanu.
