Best Practices
1. Name of the practice
New-born essentials allowance
2. City
ZAGREB (CROATIA)
3. Years in operation
2006 –
4. Objectives
To provide compensation for the starting economic cost of children and to encourage big families.
5. Description - overwiew
City of Zagreb provides money for every newborn child under certain conditions. For the first child allowance is 1.800,00 kn, for the second 3.600,00 kn and for the third and every additional child is 54.000,00 kn. Certain conditions are that one parent must have registered residency for 5 years prior to the birth of the child, child must have registered residency equal to the first parent and second parent must live in the City of Zagreb.
6. Field of application
Economic support.
7. Target
Children.
8. Budget
78.000.000,00 kn annually (10.464.110 EUR)
9 Evaluation - impact - outcomes
Around 6.000 new users every year.
