Labor Minister Marius Budai says that child benefits will be indexed to the inflation rate recorded during the previous year, as required by law, providing an increase of approximately 12 lei for a child receiving a standard benefit of 243 lei. , reports News.ro.

“I don’t think there is a family in Romania, or we should support a family in Romania, that has working parents and lives only on child support,” he claims.

“The allowances will increase with the calculated level of inflation… with the one prescribed in the law and which we know. (…) This is what we are doing now, and at the end of the day, I don’t think that there is a family in Romania, or we should not support a family in Romania that has working parents and lives only on children allowance,” said the labor minister on Romanian television on Tuesday evening.

As for families living solely on child benefits, Budai argued that their adults should be “work-oriented.”

Prime Minister Nicolae Chuke officially announced on Monday evening that at a coalition meeting it was decided to increase the pension point by 12.5% ​​starting January 1, so that it would be 1,784 lei.

“The PNL was adamantly against a raise of less than 15% and achieved in the negotiations total increases of more than 15.8%,” Chuke revealed, recalling other decisions taken, including the continuation of voucher support for those on low pensions, social security , support for electricity bill payments, renewal of child benefits and some benefits.