Poland to ramp up child benefit payments from 2024

Children sitting in a cart eat ice cream during the Pol'and'Rock Festival, formerly known as Woodstock Festival Poland, in Czaplinek, Poland August 5, 2022. REUTERS/Stefana Atodiresei

WARSAW (Reuters) -The Polish government will increase monthly child benefit payments to 800 zlotys ($193.13) per child from 500 zlotys from the start of 2024, the leader of the ruling Law and Justice Party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, said on Sunday.

The family support program called "Family 500 plus" is a flagship project of the Law and Justice party (PiS), which was introduced in 2016.