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Expanded Child Benefits

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posted on 2023-11-06, 21:18 authored by Mary DalyMary Daly, Sunwoo RyuSunwoo Ryu, Ertugrul PolatErtugrul Polat

Income-related elligibility conditions for receiving child benefits (vaiko išmoka) supplement were temporarily simplified and a one-off payment was provided on top of them

History

Country

Lithuania

Policy Area

Additional income support for families with children

Measure

Cash transfer, easing of eligibility conditions

Eligibility

Children aged under 18 who were entitled to child benefits or children who were newly born and became entitled to the benefits by 31/12/2020

Type

Cash (social assistance)

Start / Announced Date

12/06/2020

End Date

N/A

Amount

For families who were in receipt of €60 of child benefits: a one-off payment of €120 For families who had disabled children, three or more children, or low income and were therefore in receipt of €100 of child benefits: a one-off payment of €200

Total Cost

N/A

Recipients

Parents

Route to the child

Indirect

Sources

Eurofound (2020) A lump sum payment for children on top of child benefit, case LT-2020-24/917 (measures in Lithuania), COVID-19 EU PolicyWatch, Dublin. Available at: http://eurofound.link/covid19eupolicywatch Gentilini, U., Almenfi, M., Orton, I. and Dale, P. (2021) Social protection and jobs responses to COVID-19: a real-time review of country measures ("living paper” version 15). 14 May 2021. Available at: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/33635