Better deal for large families thanks to new law reform
Saturday, July 20, 2013 @ 5:43 PM
'LARGE families' who are eligible for concessions and benefits from the State will continue to be so until their youngest child is aged 26 – even if they have left home by then.
Until now, parents with three or more children – the only families entitled to any kind of financial assistance for child-rearing – stopped getting help from the government when the youngest of their brood turned 21.
With the new law, the upper age of 21 will apply to the eldest child if he or she is working, or 26 if the son or daughter is at college or unemployed.
It will have a positive effect on 84 per cent of Spain's 532,928 families who have three children – a total of 373,043 – who would have lost their 'status' as a large family once the eldest turned 21, even if he or she was not working.
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