Best Practices
1. Name of the practice
Allowance for stay-at-home parents
2. City
ZAGREB (CROATIA)
3. Years in operation
2016 –
4. Objectives
Provide access to family services, provide support for child development at an early age, to provide compensation for the economic cost of children to reduce the gap in living standards.
5. Description - overwiew
Parents with three or more children who are unemployed have the opportunity to get monthly allowance from the City of Zagreb if they do not have any income, live in City of Zagreb 5 years prior to admitting claim, other parent is living in Zagreb, youngest child is not attending preschool and other children who are supposed to go to elementary school are attending it in City of Zagreb or in Zagreb County.
More information: https://www.zagreb.hr/en/demographic-measures/136703
6. Field of application
Economic support.
7. Target
Parents.
8. Budget
290.000.000 kn per year (38.900.938 EUR)
9 Evaluation - impact - outcomes
Increase of newborns in City of Zagreb. On average, there are 50 new users every month.
