According to the budget proposal for 2026, which Vijesti has had access to, the amount planned for the payment of child benefits in the coming year is 56,1 million euros, which is 1,1 million or two percent more than this year. In other words, this increase refers to the expected increase in beneficiaries, not to the increase in the amount of the benefit.
In the Parliament, a debate on this issue has been ongoing for the past few days between the parliamentary groups URA and the Europe Now Movement. The majority of MPs abstained from the URA proposal to increase child allowances, so it was not adopted. PES then announced that they would propose that the amount for financing political parties in the budget be halved and that this amount be allocated to increasing child allowances.
In this year's budget, the item "transfers to political parties, parties and associations" amounts to 10,3 million euros. However, in the proposal for next year, it has not been reduced, but rather doubled to 20,6 million euros.
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