Social Assistance Directorate Ramnicu Sarat*

The state allowance for children provided by Law no. 61/1993 regarding the state allowance for children, republished, with subsequent amendments and completions, is granted to all children up to the age of 18, Romanian citizens, without discrimination, as well as to young people who have reached the age of 18, who are attending high school or vocational education courses organized under the law, until their completion.

The state allowance for children is also granted to the children of foreign citizens, as well as to the children of stateless persons residing in Romania, under the conditions of the law, if they live together with their parents.

Applications for the establishment of the state allowance for children and the documents showing the fulfillment of the legal conditions for granting this right are submitted and registered at the city hall of the commune, town, city, or the sectors of Bucharest, in whose territorial area the legal representatives of the children have their domicile or residence, as applicable.

The right to the state allowance for children is established by decision of the executive director of the county social benefits agencies.

Persons who, in the last 2 years prior to the child's date of birth, have earned for at least 12 months income from salaries and income assimilated to salaries, income from independent activities, income from intellectual property rights, income from agricultural, forestry, and fish farming activities, subject to income tax, hereinafter referred to as taxable income, are entitled to parental leave for raising the child up to 2 years old, or up to 3 years old in the case of a disabled child, as well as to a monthly allowance.

The amount of the monthly allowance is 85% of the average net income earned in the last 12 months of the 2 years prior to the child's date of birth.

The minimum amount of the monthly allowance cannot be lower than the sum resulting from applying a multiplication coefficient of 2.5 to the value of the social reference indicator, and the maximum amount cannot exceed 8,500 lei.

The 12 months mentioned above may be constituted entirely from periods in which persons were in one or more of the following situations:

1. benefited from unemployment allowance or periods of contribution in the public pension system, under the special legislation regulating collective dismissals;
2. were registered at the county employment agency for the granting of unemployment allowance;
3. benefited from leave and health social insurance allowances;
4. benefited from medical leave and allowances for prevention of sickness and recovery of work capacity, exclusively for situations resulting from occupational accidents or diseases;
5. benefited from disability pension;
6. are in the period of temporary interruption of activity, at the employer's initiative, without termination of the employment relationship, for economic, technological, structural, or similar reasons;
7. benefited from parental leave and monthly allowance for raising the child;
8. benefited from leave and monthly allowance for raising or, as the case may be, caring for the disabled child;
9. benefited from unpaid leave for raising the child;
10. are in the 3-month period between the termination of a fixed-term employment contract and the beginning of another fixed-term employment contract;
11. accompanied their spouse sent on a permanent mission abroad;
12. performed or are performing voluntary military service, were concentrated, mobilized, or held as prisoners;
13. attend, without interruption, daytime courses of pre-university education, including in the "Second Chance" program, or, as the case may be, university studies at bachelor's or master's level, as well as postgraduate education at master's level, organized according to the law, in the country or abroad, in a field recognized by the Ministry of Education and Research, except for interruptions of courses for medical reasons;
14. have the status of doctoral student;
15. are in the period between the completion of one form of pre-university education and the beginning, in the same calendar year, of another form of pre-university education, daytime courses, organized according to law, attended without interruption;
16. are in the period between the graduation of daytime courses of pre-university education, organized according to law, and the beginning of university education, daytime courses, in the same calendar year;
17. are in the period between the completion of one form of university education, daytime courses, with or without bachelor's or diploma exam, and beginning, in the same calendar year, of another form of university education, daytime courses, attended without interruption;
18. are in the period between the completion of one form of university education, at bachelor's or master's level, as well as postgraduate education at master's level, daytime courses, and the beginning, in the same calendar year, of another form of university education at bachelor's or master's level, daytime courses, attended without interruption;
19. are in the period between the completion of one form of postgraduate education, daytime courses, and the beginning, in the same calendar year, of another form of postgraduate education, daytime courses, attended without interruption;
20. are in the period of 60 days from finishing compulsory education or, as the case may be, graduating daytime courses of pre-university, university at bachelor's or master's level and postgraduate at master's level, organized according to the law, with or without graduation exam, for employment or as the case may be, transition to unemployment, calculated from the first day of the month following graduation;
21. benefited from unpaid leave to attend training and professional development courses at the initiative of the employer or with their approval;
22. are in the period between graduating daytime courses of higher medical education, with bachelor exam organized in the first session, and starting the first residency after graduation;
23. were sent on a permanent mission abroad;
24. benefited from the monthly allowance in the context of the epidemiological situation caused by the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the allowance established according to the social protection measures for employees and other professional categories in the context of prohibition, suspension or limitation of economic activities, caused by the epidemiological situation generated by SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and/or the allowance established according to the support measures for employees and employers in the context of the epidemiological situation caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, as well as for stimulating the increase in employment.

For the granting of these rights, persons who have carried out professional activities in the member states of the European Union or in other states benefit from the totalization of periods of activity carried out in these states under its provisions.

In the situation where one or more children resulting from multiple pregnancies are classified as having a degree of disability, for him/her/them, the allowance is granted until the child/children reach the age of 3 years, as follows:

a) in the case where a monthly allowance right for raising the child has already been established, by extending the granting period if the request for extension is submitted before the previous right ceases;

b) in the case where classification as disabled is made after the child/children reach the age of 2 years, and leave and allowance for raising the child have previously been granted to him/her/them, by granting a new right from the date of classification as disabled, if the request is submitted within 60 days from this date;

c) by granting a new right from the date of submission of the request in case the deadlines provided in a) and b) were exceeded.

The following persons benefit from the monthly allowance for raising children:

• any of the child's/children's biological parents;
• any spouse to whom the child/children have been entrusted for adoption or who have adopted the child/children;
• the person who has the child in foster care or in emergency foster care;
• the professional foster carer, only for his/her own biological or adopted children;
• the person who has been appointed guardian.

The same rights are also granted to one of the persons who has adopted the child, to whom the child has been entrusted for adoption or who has the child in foster care or in emergency foster care, except for the professional foster carer who can benefit from these rights only for his/her own children, as well as the person appointed as guardian.

In the case of persons who have adopted the child, to whom the child has been entrusted for adoption or who have the child in foster care or emergency foster care, the granting of rights takes into account the 12-month period prior to the one in which, as applicable, the adoption was approved, the entrustment was made, or the foster care or guardianship was instituted.

If the death of the parent who fulfilled the conditions to benefit from the parental leave and monthly allowance occurs, the surviving parent has the right to benefit, upon request, from rights as follows:

a) the rights of the deceased parent, in the event that he/she does not fulfill the conditions provided by the applicable legislation;

b) the rights provided by the applicable legislation, if he/she fulfills the granting conditions.

The leave and monthly allowance are due for each birth or, as the case may be, for each situation of adoption, entrustment for adoption, foster care or emergency foster care.

The duration of the leave is extended accordingly in the case of overlapping two or more situations likely to generate this right. In such cases, only one allowance is granted.

If the person who benefited from leave and allowance for raising the child gives birth to one or more children or is in a new situation, within up to 12 months from the end of the previous parental leave, if the calculation of the allowance results in a lower amount than the allowance received before the birth of the latest child, the monthly allowance for raising the child granted for the previous child is paid.

The rights are granted if the applicant cumulatively fulfills the following conditions:

a) is a Romanian citizen, foreign citizen, or stateless person;

b) has domicile or residence on the territory of Romania;

c) resides in Romania together with the child/children for whom the rights are requested and takes care of raising and caring for him/her/them.

The rights representing allowances are established as follows:

a) starting with the day following the date on which, according to the law, maternity leave ends, if the request is submitted within 60 working days of that date;

b) starting with the child's date of birth, if the request is submitted within 60 working days of that date, for persons who do not fulfill, according to the law, the conditions for granting maternity leave and the related allowance;

c) starting with the date of adoption, institution of guardianship, foster care, or entrustment, if the request is submitted within 60 working days of the date when the protection measures were approved or, as the case may be, instituted;

d) starting with the day following the date on which the entitled person earns taxable income, if the request is submitted within 30 working days of that date;

e) from the date of submission of the request, for all other situations, including if the request was submitted after the deadlines provided in a)-c).

The right to allowances ceases on the day following the day on which:

a) the child reaches the age of 2 years, or 3 years in the case of a disabled child;

b) the death of the child occurred.

The right to allowance is suspended on the day following the day on which:

1. the beneficiary is deprived of parental rights;
2. the beneficiary is removed from the exercise of guardianship;
3. the beneficiary no longer fulfills the conditions provided by the applicable legislation for entrustment of the child for adoption;
4. the beneficiary no longer fulfills the conditions provided by the applicable legislation for maintaining the foster care measure;
5. the beneficiary serves a custodial sentence or is in pre-trial detention for more than 30 days;
6. the child is abandoned or is admitted in a public or private care institution;
7. the beneficiary has died;
8. if the beneficiary no longer fulfills the conditions for granting the rights;
9. the beneficiary earns taxable income and the child has not reached the age of 2 years, respectively 3 years in the case of a disabled child;
10. it is found that for 3 consecutive months postal mandates are returned.

The beneficiary of the rights is obliged to communicate in writing to the entity any change in their situation, which may lead to termination or suspension of the payment of rights, within 15 working days from its occurrence.

The communication is sent by the territorial agency entity within 5 working days from registration date.

Persons who, in the last 2 years prior to the child's date of birth, have earned income for at least 12 months from salaries and salary-like income, income from independent activities, income from intellectual property rights, income from agricultural, forestry and fisheries activities, subject to income tax, hereinafter referred to as taxable income, benefit from leave for raising a child up to 2 years old, or 3 years old in the case of a child with a disability, as well as from a monthly allowance.

The amount of the monthly allowance is 85% of the average net income earned in the last 12 months of the last 2 years prior to the child's date of birth.

The minimum amount of the monthly allowance cannot be less than the amount resulting from applying a multiplication coefficient of 2.5 to the value of the social reference index, and its maximum amount cannot exceed the value of 8,500 lei.

The 12 months mentioned above may be constituted entirely from periods in which the persons have found themselves in one or more of the following situations:

1. have received unemployment allowance or have completed contribution periods in the public pension system, according to special normative acts regulating collective layoffs;
2. have been registered with the county employment agency for receiving the unemployment allowance;
3. have benefited from leaves and social health insurance allowances;
4. have benefited from medical leaves and allowances for preventing illness and recovering work capacity, exclusively for situations resulting from work accidents or occupational diseases;
5. have received disability pension;
6. are in a period of temporary interruption of activity, initiated by the employer, without termination of the employment relationship, for economic, technological, structural or similar reasons;
7. have benefited from leave and monthly allowance for raising a child;
8. have benefited from leave and monthly allowance for raising or, where applicable, caring for a child with a disability;
9. have benefited from unpaid leave for raising a child;
10. are in the period of 3 months between the end of a fixed-term employment contract and the beginning of another fixed-term contract;
11. have accompanied their spouse who was sent on a permanent mission abroad;
12. have performed or are performing voluntary military service, have been mobilized, conscripted or taken as prisoners of war;
13. attend, without interruption, day courses in pre-university education, including in the "Second Chance" program, or, as the case may be, university courses at the level of bachelor's or master's studies, as well as post-university education at master level, organized according to the law, in the country or abroad, in a field recognized by the Ministry of Education and Research, except for the interruption of courses for medical reasons;
14. hold the status of doctoral student;
15. are in the period between completing one form of pre-university education and starting, in the same calendar year, another form of pre-university education, day courses, legally organized, attended without interruption;
16. are in the period between graduating day courses of legally organized pre-university education and starting university education, day courses, in the same calendar year;
17. are in the period between completing one form of university education, day courses, with or without a bachelor's or diploma exam, and starting, in the same calendar year, another form of university education, day courses, attended without interruption;
18. are in the period between completing one form of university education, at the level of bachelor's or master's studies, as well as post-university education at the master level, day courses, and starting, in the same calendar year, another form of university education at bachelor's or master's level, day courses, attended without interruption;
19. are in the period between completing one form of post-university education, day courses, and starting, in the same calendar year, another form of post-university education, day courses, attended without interruption;
20. are in the period of 60 days from completing compulsory education or, as the case may be, from graduating day courses in pre-university, university at bachelor's or master's studies, and post-university at master level, legally organized, with or without graduation exam, for the purpose of employment or, as the case may be, becoming unemployed, calculated starting from the 1st of the month following studies completion;
21. have benefited from unpaid leave to participate in training and professional development courses initiated by the employer or agreed by the employer;
22. are in the period between graduating day courses of higher medical education, with bachelor's exam organized in the first session, and starting the first residency after graduation;
23. have been sent on a permanent mission abroad;
24. have benefited from the monthly allowance in the context of the epidemiological situation caused by the spread of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the allowance established according to social protection measures for employees and other professional categories in the context of prohibition, suspension or limitation of economic activities due to the epidemiological situation caused by the spread of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and/or the allowance established according to support measures for employees and employers in the context of the epidemiological situation caused by the spread of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, as well as for stimulating employment growth.

To grant these rights, persons who have carried out professional activities in European Union member states or in other states benefit from the totalization of activity periods performed in these states, under the conditions provided therein.

In the situation where one or more of the children resulting from multiple pregnancies is classified with a degree of disability, for this/these child/children the allowance is granted until the child/children reaches/reach the age of 3 years, as follows:

a) if a monthly allowance for child-raising is already established, by extending the granting period if the extension request is submitted before the previous right ceases;

b) if the disability classification is made after the child/children reaches/reach the age of 2 years and leave and child-raising allowance were previously granted, by granting a new right from the date of disability classification, if the request is submitted within 60 days from said date;

c) by granting a new right from the date of submitting the request if the deadlines provided in points a) and b) were exceeded.

The following persons benefit from the monthly child-raising allowance:

• any of the child/children's biological parents;
• any of the spouses entrusted with the child/children for adoption or have adopted the child/children;
• the person who has the child in placement or in emergency placement;
• the professional foster parent, only for his/her own natural or adopted children;
• the person who has been appointed as guardian.

The same rights are also granted to one of the persons who adopted the child, to whom the child has been entrusted for adoption or who has the child in placement or emergency placement, except for the professional foster parent who can benefit from these rights only for his/her own children, as well as the person appointed as guardian.

For persons who have adopted the child, to whom the child has been entrusted for adoption or who have a child in placement or emergency placement, the granting of rights is made taking into account the 12 months prior to the one in which, as the case may be, the adoption was approved, the entrustment was made, or placement or guardianship was established.

If the parent entitled to leave and monthly allowance dies, the surviving parent is entitled, upon request, to the following rights:

a) the rights of the deceased parent, if they do not meet the conditions stipulated by the applicable legislation;

b) the rights provided by the applicable legislation, if they meet the conditions for granting.

Leave and monthly allowance are granted for each birth or, as applicable, for each adoption, entrustment for adoption, placement or emergency placement situation.

The duration of leave is extended accordingly in the event of overlap of two or more situations which may generate this right. In such cases, only one allowance is granted.

In the case in which the person who has benefited from leave and allowance for child-raising gives birth to one or more children or is in a new situation, within up to 12 months after the end of leave for the previous child, if the calculation of the allowance results in a monthly child-raising allowance lower than the allowance received before the birth of the last child, the monthly allowance for the previous child is granted.

Rights are granted if the applicant meets the following cumulative conditions:

a) is a Romanian citizen, foreign citizen or stateless person;

b) has domicile or residence on the territory of Romania;

c) lives in Romania together with the child/children for whom the rights are requested and takes care of the raising and care of the child/children.

The rights representing allowances are established as follows:

a) starting from the day following the end, according to law, of maternity leave, if the request is submitted within 60 working days from that date;

b) starting from the date of the child's birth, if the request is submitted within 60 working days from that date, for persons who do not meet the conditions, according to law, for maternity leave and the related allowance;

c) from the date of adoption, establishment of guardianship, placement or entrustment, if the request is submitted within 60 working days from the date these protective measures were approved or, as the case may be, established;

d) from the day following the date on which the entitled person obtains taxable income, if the request is submitted within 30 working days from this date;

e) from the date of submission of the request, for all other situations, including if the request was submitted after the deadlines stipulated in points a)-c).

The right to allowances ceases on the day following the day on which:

a) the child reaches the age of 2 years, or 3 years in the case of a child with a disability;

b) the child has deceased.

The right to allowance is suspended on the day following the day on which:

1. the beneficiary is deprived of parental rights;
2. the beneficiary is removed from exercising guardianship;
3. the beneficiary no longer meets the conditions stipulated by the applicable legislation for the child's entrustment for adoption;
4. the beneficiary no longer fulfills the conditions stipulated by the applicable legislation for maintaining the placement measure;
5. the beneficiary is serving a custodial sentence or is in pre-trial detention for more than 30 days;
6. the child is abandoned or is institutionalized in a public or private protection institution;
7. the beneficiary has died;
8. in the situation where the beneficiary no longer meets the conditions for granting the rights;
9. the beneficiary earns taxable income and the child has not reached the age of 2 years, or 3 years in the case of a child with a disability;
10. it is found that for 3 consecutive months returned postal orders are registered.

The beneficiary of the rights is obliged to notify the entity in writing about any change in their situation that could cause the termination or suspension of payment of the rights, within 15 working days from its occurrence.

The notification is transmitted by the entity of the territorial agency within 5 working days from the date of registration.

Persons who, in the last 2 years prior to the child's birth date, have earned for at least 12 months income from salaries and salary assimilated income, income from independent activities, income from intellectual property rights, income from agricultural, forestry and fisheries activities, subject to income tax, hereinafter referred to as taxable income, are entitled to leave for raising a child up to 2 years old, or 3 years old in the case of a disabled child, as well as to a monthly allowance.

The amount of the monthly allowance is 85% of the average net income earned in the last 12 months from the previous 2 years before the child's birth date.

The minimum amount of the monthly allowance cannot be less than the sum resulting from applying a multiplication coefficient of 2.5 to the value of the social reference indicator, and the maximum amount cannot exceed the value of 8,500 lei.

The 12 months mentioned above can be constituted entirely from periods when persons were in one or more of the following situations:

1. benefited from unemployment allowance or completed periods of contribution stage in the public pension system, under the conditions provided by special normative acts regulating collective dismissals;
2. were registered with the county employment agency, for the purpose of granting unemployment allowance;
3. benefited from leave and health social insurance allowances;
4. benefited from medical leave and allowances for prevention of diseases and recovery of work capacity, exclusively for situations resulting from work accidents or occupational diseases;
5. benefited from disability pension;
6. 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;
7. benefited from leave and monthly allowance for child raising;
8. benefited from leave and monthly allowance for raising or, as the case may be, caring for a disabled child;
9. benefited from unpaid leave for child raising;
10. are in a period of 3 months between the end of a fixed-term employment contract and the start of another fixed-term employment contract;
11. accompanied their spouse sent on permanent mission abroad;
12. performed or are performing military service on a voluntary basis, were concentrated, mobilized or in captivity;
13. attend, without interruption, daytime courses of pre-university education, including within the "Second Chance" program, or, as the case may be, university courses at undergraduate or master's level, as well as post-university master's courses, organized according to the law, in the country or abroad, in a field recognized by the Ministry of Education and Research, except in cases of interruption of courses due to medical reasons;
14. have the status of doctoral candidate;
15. are in the period between the completion of a pre-university education form and the beginning, in the same calendar year, of another pre-university education form, daytime courses, organized according to the law, attended without interruption;
16. are in the period between graduation of daytime courses of pre-university education, organized according to the law, and the beginning of university daytime education, in the same calendar year;
17. are in the period between completion of a form of university education, daytime courses, with or without bachelor’s or diploma examination, and the beginning, in the same calendar year, of another form of university education, daytime courses, attended without interruption;
18. are in the period between completion of a form of university education, at undergraduate or master's level, as well as post-university masters, daytime courses, and the beginning, in the same calendar year, of another form of university education at undergraduate or master's level, daytime courses, attended without interruption;
19. are in the period between completion of a post-university education form, daytime courses, and the beginning, in the same calendar year, of another post-university education form, daytime courses, attended without interruption;
20. are in the period of 60 days from the completion of compulsory education or, as the case may be, graduation of daytime courses of pre-university, undergraduate, master's and post-university master's education, organized according to the law, with or without graduation exam, for the purpose of employment or, as the case may be, transition to unemployment, calculated from the 1st day of the month following the completion of studies;
21. benefited from unpaid leave to participate in training and professional development courses initiated by the employer or ones the employer approved;
22. are in the period between graduation of daytime courses of higher medical education, with a bachelor's exam organized in the first session, and the start of the first residency after graduation;
23. were sent on permanent mission abroad;
24. benefited from the monthly allowance in the context of the epidemiological situation caused by the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, from the allowance established according to the social protection measures for employees and other professional categories in the context of prohibition, suspension or limitation of economic activities caused by the epidemiological situation generated by the spread of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and/or from the allowance established according to the support measures for employees and employers in the context of the epidemiological situation caused by the spread of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, as well as for stimulating increased labor force employment.

For the granting of these rights, persons who have carried out professional activities in the member states of the European Union or in other states benefit from the totalization of periods of activity carried out in these states under the conditions provided herein.

In the situation where one or more of the children resulting from multiple pregnancies are classified as having a degree of disability, for this/these child/children, the allowance is granted until the child/children reaches/ reach the age of 3 years, as follows:

a) if there is already an established monthly allowance right for child raising, by extending the period if the extension request is submitted before the previous right ceases;

b) if the classification as disabled is made after the child/children reaches/ reach the age of 2 years and the child raising leave and allowance have been previously granted, by granting a new right from the date of classification as disabled, if the request is submitted within 60 days from this date;

c) by granting a new right from the date of submission of the request in case the deadlines provided in a) and b) are exceeded.

The following persons benefit from the monthly child raising allowance:

• any of the child's/children's biological parents;
• any of the spouses to whom the child/children have been entrusted for adoption or who have adopted the child/children;
• the person who has the child in foster care or in emergency foster care;
• the professional foster parent, only for their own biological or adopted children;
• the person who was appointed guardian.

The same rights are also granted to one of the persons who has adopted the child, to whom the child has been entrusted for adoption or who has the child in foster care or in emergency foster care, except for the professional foster parent who may benefit from these rights only for their own children, as well as the person who was appointed guardian.

In the situation of persons who have adopted a child, to whom the child has been entrusted for adoption, or who have the child in foster care or in emergency foster care, the granting of rights takes into account the 12 months preceding the one in which, as the case may be, the adoption was approved, the entrustment was made or the foster care or guardianship was instituted.

If the parent who meets the conditions to benefit from the leave and monthly allowance dies, the surviving parent has the right, upon request, to benefit from the rights as follows:

a) the rights of the deceased parent, if they do not meet the conditions provided by the applicable legislation;

b) the rights provided by the applicable legislation, if they meet the conditions for granting.

Leave and monthly allowance are due for each birth or, as the case may be, for each situation of adoption, entrustment for adoption, foster care or emergency foster care.

The duration of leave is extended accordingly in case of overlap of two or more situations generating this right. In such situations, only one allowance is granted.

If the person who has benefited from leave and allowance for child raising gives birth to one or more children or is in a new situation, within a period of up to 12 months from the end of the previous child raising leave, if the calculation results in a lower monthly child raising allowance than the allowance received before the birth of the latest child, the monthly child raising allowance previously received is granted.

Rights are granted when the applicant cumulatively meets the following conditions:

a) is a Romanian citizen, foreign citizen or stateless person;

b) has domicile or residence in Romania;

c) lives in Romania together with the child/children for whom they are requesting the rights and is responsible for raising and caring for them.

Entitlements representing allowances are established as follows:

a) starting from the day following the day when maternity leave ends, if the request is submitted within 60 working days from that date;

b) starting from the child's birth date, if the request is submitted within 60 working days from that date, for persons who do not meet, under the law, the conditions for granting maternity leave and the corresponding allowance;

c) starting from the date of adoption, guardianship, foster care or entrustment, if the request is submitted within 60 working days from the date the protection measures for the child were approved or instituted;

d) starting from the day following the day when the entitled person earns taxable income, if the request is submitted within 30 working days from this date;

e) from the date of request submission, for all other situations, including when the request was submitted after the deadlines provided at a)-c).

The right to allowances ceases on the day following the day when:

a) the child reaches the age of 2, or 3 in the case of a disabled child;

b) the child has died.

The right to the allowance is suspended on the day following the day when:

1. the beneficiary is deprived of parental rights;
2. the beneficiary is removed from exercising guardianship;
3. the beneficiary no longer meets the conditions provided by the applicable legislation for entrusting the child for adoption;
4. the beneficiary no longer meets the conditions provided by the applicable legislation for maintaining the foster care measure;
5. the beneficiary serves a custodial sentence or is in pre-trial detention for more than 30 days;
6. the child is abandoned or admitted to a public or private care institution;
7. the beneficiary has died;
8. if the beneficiary no longer meets the conditions for granting the rights;
9. the beneficiary earns taxable income and the child has not reached the age of 2, respectively 3 in the case of a disabled child;
10. it is found that for 3 consecutive months returned postal mandates are registered.

The beneficiary of the rights is obliged to communicate in writing to the entity any change in their situation that may lead to the cessation or suspension of payment of the rights, within 15 working days from its occurrence.

The communication is sent by the territorial agency entity within 5 working days from the date of registration.

Persons who, in the last 2 years prior to the date of the child's birth, have obtained for at least 12 months incomes from salaries and assimilated to salaries, incomes from independent activities, incomes from intellectual property rights, incomes from agricultural, forestry, and fishery activities, subject to income tax, hereinafter referred to as taxable income, benefit from leave for raising a child up to the age of 2 years, or 3 years in the case of a disabled child, as well as a monthly allowance.

The amount of the monthly allowance is 85% of the average net income earned in the last 12 months of the two years prior to the child's birth date.

The minimum amount of the monthly allowance cannot be less than the sum resulting from applying a multiplication coefficient of 2.5 to the value of the social reference indicator, and its maximum amount cannot exceed the value of 8,500 lei.

The 12 months mentioned above may consist entirely of periods in which the persons were in one or more of the following situations:

1. have benefited from unemployment benefits or have completed contribution periods in the public pension system, under the special regulations governing collective redundancies;
2. were registered with the county employment agency for the granting of unemployment benefits;
3. benefited from social health insurance leave and allowances;
4. benefited from medical leaves and allowances for the prevention of illness and recovery of work capacity, exclusively for situations resulting from work accidents or occupational diseases;
5. benefited from disability pension;
6. are in the period of temporary work interruption at the employer's initiative, without termination of the work relationship, for economic, technological, structural, or similar reasons;
7. benefited from leave and monthly allowance for child raising;
8. benefited from leave and monthly allowance for raising or, as the case may be, caring for a disabled child;
9. benefited from unpaid leave for child raising;
10. are in the period of 3 months between the termination of a fixed-term employment contract and the commencement of another fixed-term employment contract;
11. accompanied the spouse sent on permanent mission abroad;
12. performed or are performing military service on a voluntary basis, were mobilized, concentrated, or in captivity;
13. attend, without interruption, full-time pre-university courses, including the "Second Chance" program, or, as the case may be, full-time university courses at undergraduate or master's level, as well as full-time post-university courses at master's level, organized according to the law, in the country or abroad, in a field recognized by the Ministry of Education and Research, except in the case of interruption of courses for medical reasons;
14. have the status of PhD student;
15. are in the period between the conclusion of a form of pre-university education and the beginning, in the same calendar year, of another form of full-time pre-university education, organized according to the law, attended without interruption;
16. are in the period between the completion of full-time pre-university education, organized according to the law, and the commencement of full-time university education, in the same calendar year;
17. are in the period between the completion of a form of full-time university education, with or without bachelor's or diploma exam, and the commencement, in the same calendar year, of another form of full-time university education, attended without interruption;
18. are in the period between the completion of a form of university education at undergraduate or master's level, as well as post-university education at master's level, full-time, and the commencement, in the same calendar year, of another form of full-time university education at undergraduate or master's level, attended without interruption;
19. are in the period between the completion of a form of full-time post-university education and the commencement, in the same calendar year, of another form of full-time post-university education, attended without interruption;
20. are in the 60-day period after completing compulsory schooling or, as the case may be, after completing full-time pre-university, full-time undergraduate or master's university, and post-university master's studies, organized according to the law, with or without graduation exam, for employment or, as the case may be, registering for unemployment, calculated from the 1st of the month following the completion of studies;
21. benefited from unpaid leave to participate in professional training and improvement courses at the employer's initiative or with the employer’s agreement;
22. are in the period between completion of full-time higher medical education, with a bachelor's exam organized in the first session, and the commencement of the first residency after graduation;
23. were sent on a permanent mission abroad;
24. benefited from the monthly allowance in the context of the epidemiological situation caused by the spread of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the allowance established according to measures of social protection for employees and other professional categories in the context of prohibition, suspension, or limitation of economic activities, determined by the epidemiological situation generated by the spread of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and/or the allowance established according to measures to support employees and employers in the context of the epidemiological situation caused by the spread of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, as well as for stimulating increased employment.

For the granting of these rights, persons who have carried out professional activities in the member states of the European Union or in other countries benefit from the totalization of the activity periods carried out in these countries under the conditions provided by the present law.

If one or more of the children resulting from multiple pregnancies is classified as disabled, for him/her/them, the allowance is granted until the child/children turns/turn 3 years old, as follows:

a) if a right to a monthly allowance for child raising is already established, by extending the granting period if the extension request is submitted before the previous right’s termination;

The following persons benefit from the monthly child raising allowance:

• either of the child's/children's natural parents;
• either of the spouses to whom the child/children have been entrusted for adoption or have adopted the child/children;
• the person who has the child in placement or in emergency placement;
• the professional maternal assistant, only for his/her natural or adopted children;
• the person who has been appointed as guardian.

The same rights also benefit one of the persons who adopted the child, who has been entrusted with the child for adoption, or who has the child in placement or emergency placement, except for the professional maternal assistant who can benefit from these rights only for his/her own children as well as the person who has been appointed as guardian.

For persons who have adopted the child, to whom the child has been entrusted for adoption, or who have the child in placement or emergency placement, the rights are granted by taking into account the 12 months prior to the one in which, as appropriate, the adoption was approved, the entrusting took place, or the placement or guardianship was established.

If the parent who met the conditions to benefit from the leave and monthly allowance dies, the surviving parent is entitled to benefit, upon request, from rights, as follows:

a) from the rights of the deceased parent, if he/she does not meet the conditions provided by the applicable legislation;

b) from the rights provided by the applicable legislation, if he/she meets the granting conditions.

The leave and monthly allowance are granted for each birth or, as the case may be, for each situation of adoption, entrusting for adoption, placement or emergency placement.

The period of leave is extended accordingly in case of overlapping two or more situations generating this right. In such cases, only one allowance is granted.

If the person who benefited from child-raising leave and allowance gives birth to one or more children or is in a new situation, within a period up to 12 months from the end of the previous child-raising leave, if the calculation of the allowance results in a lower monthly allowance for child-raising than the allowance received before the birth of the last child, the monthly allowance received for the previous child shall be granted.

The rights shall be granted if the applicant cumulatively fulfills the following conditions:

a) is a Romanian citizen, foreign citizen, or stateless person;

b) has domicile or residence on the territory of Romania;

c) lives in Romania together with the child/children for whom the rights are requested and takes care of their raising and care.

The rights representing allowances are established as follows:

a) starting with the day following that on which maternity leave ceases, according to the law, if the application is submitted within 60 working days from that date;

b) starting with the date of the child’s birth, if the application is submitted within 60 working days from that date, for persons who do not meet the conditions, according to the law, for granting maternity leave and the related allowance;

c) starting with the date of adoption, establishment of guardianship, placement or entrusting, if the application is submitted within 60 working days from the date on which the measures for child protection were approved or, as the case may be, instituted;

d) starting with the day following that on which the entitled person earns taxable income, if the application is submitted within 30 working days from that date;

e) from the date of the application, for all other situations, including where the application has been submitted after the deadlines provided in letters a)-c).

The right to allowances ceases on the day following that on which:

a) the child has reached the age of 2 years, or 3 years in the case of a disabled child;

b) the child has died.

The right to allowance is suspended on the day following that on which:

1. the beneficiary is deprived of parental rights;
2. the beneficiary is removed from the exercise of guardianship;
3. the beneficiary no longer meets the conditions provided by the applicable legislation for the entrusting of the child for adoption;
4. the beneficiary no longer meets the conditions provided by the applicable legislation for maintaining the placement measure;
5. the beneficiary is serving a custodial sentence or is in pre-trial detention for more than 30 days;
6. the child is abandoned or is institutionalized in public or private care facilities;
7. the beneficiary has died;
8. in the case where the beneficiary no longer meets the conditions for granting the rights;
9. the beneficiary obtains taxable income and the child has not reached the age of 2 years, or 3 years in the case of a disabled child;
10. it is found that for 3 consecutive months returned postal mandates are recorded.

The beneficiary of the rights is obliged to report in writing to the authority any change in their situation, likely to determine the cessation or suspension of payment of the rights, within 15 working days from its occurrence.

The notification shall be transmitted by the territorial agency entity within 5 working days from the date of registration.

The heating aid for the home is granted for a single system used for heating the home, during the cold season, declared by the single person, or by a member of the family who has full legal capacity, who becomes the beneficiary of the aid.

Depending on the heating system used in the home, the categories of heating aid are:

a) aid for heating the home with thermal energy in a centralized system;

b) aid for natural gas;

c) aid for electricity;

d) aid for solid and/or petroleum fuels.

The heating aid is granted only to families and/or single persons.

Heating aids and the energy supplement are granted depending on the net average monthly income per family member, or of the single person, by compensating a percentage of the heating expenses, applied to the reference values, and the amount for the percentage compensation is covered by the state budget, as follows:

• in proportion of 100% of the reference value, but not more than the billed consumption, if the net average monthly income per family member or single person is up to 200 lei;
• in proportion of 90%, if the net average monthly income per family member or single person is between 200.1 lei and 320 lei;
• in proportion of 80%, if the net average monthly income per family member or single person is between 320.1 lei and 440 lei;
• in proportion of 70%, if the net average monthly income per family member or single person is between 440.1 lei and 560 lei;
• in proportion of 60%, if the net average monthly income per family member or single person is between 560.1 lei and 680 lei;
• in proportion of 50%, if the net average monthly income per family member or single person is between 680.1 lei and 920 lei;
• in proportion of 40%, if the net average monthly income per family member or single person is between 920.1 lei and 1,040 lei;
• in proportion of 30%, if the net average monthly income per family member or single person is between 1,040.1 lei and 1,160 lei;
• in proportion of 20%, if the net average monthly income per family member or single person is between 1,160.1 lei and 1,280 lei;
• in proportion of 10%, if the net average monthly income per family member is between 1,280.1 lei and 1,386 lei;
• in proportion of 10%, if the net average monthly income of the single person is between 1,280.1 lei and 2,053 lei.

The net average monthly income up to which heating aid is granted is 1,386 lei/person, in the case of the family, and 2,053 lei in the case of the single person.

The reference value, depending on the heating system used, is updated by government decision and cannot be lower than:

• 250 lei/month, for natural gas;
• 500 lei/month, for electricity;
• 320 lei/month, for solid and/or petroleum fuels.

Heating aid is granted to families and single persons, Romanian citizens, living in Romania.

The heating aid is also granted to families and single persons who are not Romanian citizens, if they are in one of the following situations:

• they are citizens of a European Union member state, of a state belonging to the European Economic Area, of the Swiss Confederation, or of other states, for the period during which they have their domicile or, as the case may be, residence in Romania;
• they are foreign citizens or stateless persons to whom a form of protection has been granted in Romania and have their domicile or, as the case may be, residence in Romania;
• they are stateless persons who have their domicile or, as the case may be, residence in Romania.

Families and single persons whose incomes are up to the value provided for in the previous chapter benefit monthly, including during the cold season, from a fixed amount energy supplement, granted depending on the sources of energy supply used, in the amount of:

The energy supplement is granted monthly, throughout the whole year