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 placement or emergency placement;
• The professional maternal assistant, only for their own biological or adopted children;
• The person who has been appointed as the child’s guardian.

Beneficiaries must have earned income from salaries and salary equivalents, 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 birth of the child or, as applicable, 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 the placement or guardianship was established:

• are within the 60-day period after graduating from full-time courses of pre-university/university education, organized according to the law, with a bachelor’s/ graduation/ diploma exam, for employment/continuing studies/registering for unemployment, according to the law.
• have accompanied their spouse sent on permanent mission abroad;
• have benefited from unemployment allowance, established according to the law;
• have benefited from social health insurance leave and allowances, according to the law;
• have completed periods assimilated to the contribution stage in the public pension system under the provisions of 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 completed contribution periods in the public pension system under the provisions of special normative acts regulating collective layoffs;
• have completed periods of contribution in the public pension system, prior to the entry into force of GEO no. 44/2006, on the basis of a social insurance contract;
• have benefited from the monthly child-raising allowance until the age of 2 years, or up to the age of 3 years in the case of a child with disabilities; have benefited from invalidity pensions;
• have benefited from unpaid leave to participate in training and professional development courses initiated by the employer or with their consent, organized according to the law;
• have worked under an individual labor contract abroad, based on bilateral government agreements concluded by Romania with other states, during some of the 12 months prior to the child’s birth;
• are in a period of temporary cessation of activity, at the employer’s initiative, without terminating the employment relationship, for economic, technological, structural, or similar reasons, according to the law;