Best Practices
1. Name of the practice
Family package assistance
2. City
ZAGREB (CROATIA)
3. Years in operation
1993 –
4. Objectives
Help most vulnerable families with three or more children to overcome financial insufficiency.
5. Description - overwiew
Family packages assistance is given to families or guardians of three or more underage children if they are beneficiaries of the guaranteed minimum allowance and to single parent family with one or more underage children if the parent is a beneficiary of the guaranteed minimum allowance. Family package assistance is given quarterly and consists of food, cleaning agents and personal hygiene products. Only in 2018, 278 families with 517 underage children received family package assistance, out of which 205 single-parent families and 73 families with three or more infants.
6. Field of application
Services. Economic support.
7. Target
Families.
8. Budget
1,5 million kunas annually (201.140 EUR)
9 Evaluation - impact - outcomes
278 families with 517 underage children received family package assistance, out of which 205 single-parent families and 73 families with three or more infants.
