The monthly allowance for child raising is granted in accordance with the provisions of GEO no. 111/2010 regarding leave and the monthly allowance for child raising, with subsequent amendments and additions, and the METHODOLOGICAL NORMS for the application of the provisions of GEO 111/2010.

BENEFICIARIES:

• Either of the child's biological parents;
• The person who has adopted the child;
• The person to whom the child has been entrusted for adoption;
• The person who has the child in foster care or in urgent foster care;
• The professional maternal assistant, only for their own natural or adopted children;
• The person who has been appointed as the child’s guardian.

The beneficiaries must have earned income from salaries and assimilated to salaries, income from independent activities, income from agricultural, forestry and fishery activities, subject to income tax, or meet one or more of the conditions listed below, for a period of 12 months in the last 2 years prior to the child’s birth, or, as the case may be, for a period of 12 months in the last 2 years prior to the date on which the adoption was approved, the entrustment was made, or foster care or guardianship was established:

• are within 60 days of graduating from full-time pre-university/university education, organized according to the law, with a bachelor’s graduation/exam/diploma, for the purpose of employment/continuing studies/entering unemployment, according to the law.
• have accompanied their spouse who was sent on a permanent mission abroad;
• have benefited from unemployment allowance, established according to the law;
• have benefited from health social insurance leaves and allowances, according to the law;
• have achieved assimilated periods to the contribution stage in the public pension system under the conditions provided by art. 38 para. (1) of Law no. 19/2000 regarding the public pension system and other social insurance rights, with subsequent amendments and additions;
• have achieved contribution periods in the public pension system under the conditions provided by the special normative acts regulating collective dismissals;
• have completed, in the public pension system, before the entry into force of GEO no. 44/2006, contribution periods based on a social insurance contract;
• have benefited from the monthly allowance for child raising up to the age of 2 years, respectively up to the age of 3 years in the case of a disabled child; have benefited from disability pensions;
• have benefited from unpaid leave to participate in training and professional development courses at the employer’s initiative or with the employer’s agreement, organized according to the law;
• have worked with an individual employment contract abroad, based on bilateral government agreements concluded by Romania with other states, for a period of the 12 months prior to the child’s birth;
• are in a period of temporary interruption of activity, at the employer’s initiative, without termination of the employment relationship, for economic, technological, structural or similar reasons, according to the law;