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 modifications 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 organized according to the law, until their completion.

Children of foreign citizens, as well as those of stateless persons residing in Romania, under the law, also benefit from the state allowance for children, provided they live together with their parents.

Applications for determining the state allowance for children and the documents proving the fulfillment of the legal conditions for granting this right are submitted and registered at the town hall of the commune, town, municipality, or respectively the sectors of the municipality of Bucharest, in whose territorial area the legal representatives of the children have their domicile or residence, as the case may be.

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 birth, have earned for at least 12 months income from salaries and salary assimilated incomes, income from independent activities, income from intellectual property rights, income from agricultural, forestry, and fishery activities, subject to income tax, hereinafter referred to as taxable income, are entitled to parental leave for raising a child up to 2 years old, 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 2 years prior to the child’s birth.

The minimum amount of the monthly allowance may not be less than the amount obtained by applying a multiplication coefficient of 2.5 to the value of the social reference indicator, and its maximum amount may not exceed 8,500 lei.,

The above-mentioned 12 months can be made up in full from periods during which individuals were in one or more of the following situations:

1. benefited from unemployment allowance or completed periods of contribution in the public pension system, under the special regulations governing collective layoffs;
2. were registered with the county employment agency for the purpose of receiving unemployment allowance;
3. benefited from medical leave and social health insurance allowances;
4. benefited from medical leave and allowances for the prevention of illness and the recovery of work capacity, exclusively for situations arising as a result of work accidents or occupational diseases;
5. benefited from invalidity pension;
6. are in a period of temporary work interruption, at the initiative of the employer, without termination of the employment relationship, for economic, technological, structural or similar reasons;
7. benefited from parental leave and monthly allowance;
8. benefited from leave and monthly allowance for the raising or, as the case may be, care of a disabled child;
9. benefited from unpaid leave for raising the child;
10. are in the period of 3 months between the termination of a fixed-term employment contract and the commencement of another fixed-term contract;
11. accompanied their spouse who was sent on a permanent mission abroad;
12. performed or are performing voluntary military service, were mobilized, deployed or taken prisoner;
13. attend, without interruption, full-time courses of pre-university education, including within the "Second Chance" program, or, as the case may be, university at bachelor's or master's level, as well as post-university 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 due to medical reasons;
14. hold the status of PhD student;
15. are in the period between the completion of a form of pre-university education and the start, in the same calendar year, of another form of pre-university education, full-time courses, organized according to the law, attended without interruption;
16. are in the period between the graduation of full-time pre-university education, organized according to the law, and the commencement of university education, full-time courses, in the same calendar year;
17. are in the period between the completion of a form of university education, full-time courses, with or without final/bachelor’s examination, and the commencement, in the same calendar year, of another form of university education, full-time courses, attended without interruption;
18. are in the period between the completion of a form of university education, at bachelor's or master's level, as well as post-university at master's level, full-time courses, and the commencement, in the same calendar year, of another form of university education at bachelor's or master's level, full-time courses, attended without interruption;
19. are in the period between the completion of a form of post-university education, full-time courses, and the commencement, in the same calendar year, of another form of post-university education, full-time courses, attended without interruption;
20. are in the period of 60 days from the completion of compulsory education or, as the case may be, from graduation from full-time pre-university, undergraduate or master's university or master's post-university education, organized according to the law, with or without a graduation examination, for the purposes of employment or, as the case may be, entry into unemployment, calculated from the 1st of the month following the completion of studies;
21. benefited from unpaid leave to attend training and professional development courses at the employer's initiative or with their consent;
22. are in the period between the graduation of full-time higher medical education, with a bachelor's examination organized in the first session, and the commencement 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, the allowance granted under social protection measures for employees and other professional categories in the context of the prohibition, suspension or limitation of economic activities due to the epidemiological situation caused by the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and/or the allowance granted under support measures for employees and employers in the context of the epidemiological situation determined by the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, as well as for stimulating employment.

For the granting of these rights, individuals who have carried out professional activities in 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 by them.

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

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

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

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

The following persons are entitled to the monthly child-raising allowance:

• any of the natural parents of the child/children;
• any of the spouses to whom the child/children has/have been entrusted for adoption or who have adopted the child/children;
• the person who has the child in foster care or emergency foster care;
• the professional maternal assistant, only for their own natural or adopted children;
• the person who has been appointed legal guardian.

The same rights also benefit one of the persons who adopted the child, to whom the child was entrusted for adoption, or who has the child in foster care or emergency foster care, except for the professional maternal assistant who can benefit from these rights only for their own children, as well as the person who was appointed legal 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 preceding the one in which, as appropriate, the adoption was approved, the entrustment was made, or the foster care or guardianship was established.

In the event of the death of the parent who fulfilled the conditions to benefit from parental leave and monthly allowance, the surviving parent has the right to receive benefits, upon request, as follows:

a) the rights of the deceased parent, if he/she does not meet the conditions provided for in the relevant legislation in force;

b) the rights provided for by the relevant legislation in force, if he/she meets the eligibility conditions.

Parental leave and the monthly allowance are granted for each birth or, as applicable, for each adoption, entrustment for adoption, foster care, or emergency foster care situation.

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

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

The rights are granted if 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 claiming the rights and is responsible for their upbringing and care.

The rights representing allowances are established as follows:

a) starting from the day following the legal end of maternity leave, if the request is lodged within 60 working days from that date;

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

c) starting from the date of adoption, establishment of guardianship, foster care, or entrustment, if the request is lodged within 60 working days from the date these measures were approved or, as applicable, established for the protection of the child;

d) starting from the day following the one in which the entitled person earns taxable income, if the request is lodged 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 set out in points a)-c).

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

a) the child reaches 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 exercising guardianship;
3. the beneficiary no longer meets the conditions provided by law for entrustment of the child for adoption;
4. the beneficiary no longer meets the conditions provided by law for maintaining the foster care measure;
5. the beneficiary serves a custodial sentence or is held in pre-trial detention for more than 30 days;
6. the child is abandoned or is institutionalized in a public or private care institution;
7. the beneficiary has died;
8. the beneficiary no longer meets the conditions for entitlement to 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 disabled child;
10. it is found that for 3 consecutive months postal mandates are returned.

The beneficiary of the rights is obliged to notify the entity in writing of any change in their situation that 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 the date of registration.

Persons who, in the last 2 years prior to the date of the child's birth, have achieved for at least 12 months income from salaries and those assimilated to salaries, income from independent activities, income from intellectual property rights, income 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 2 years old, or 3 years old in the case of a child with disabilities, as well as a monthly allowance.

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

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 8,500 lei.

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

1. benefited from unemployment allowance or achieved contribution periods in the public pension system, under the conditions provided by special normative acts governing collective layoffs;
2. were registered with the county employment agency for the purpose of granting unemployment allowance;
3. benefited from health social insurance leave and allowances;
4. benefited from medical leave and allowances for prevention of illnesses and recovery of work capacity, exclusively for situations arising as a result of work accidents or occupational diseases;
5. benefited from invalidity pension;
6. are in a period of temporary work interruption, at the initiative of the employer, without terminating the employment relationship, for economic, technological, structural, or similar reasons;
7. benefited from leave and monthly allowance for raising a child;
8. benefited from leave and monthly allowance for raising or, as the case may be, caring for a child with disabilities;
9. benefited from unpaid leave for raising a child;
10. are in the period of 3 months from the termination of a fixed-term employment contract and the beginning of another fixed-term employment contract;
11. accompanied the spouse sent on permanent mission abroad;
12. performed or are performing voluntary military service, were concentrated, mobilized, or in captivity;
13. attend, without interruption, day courses of pre-university education, including the "Second Chance" program, or, as applicable, university-level bachelor's or master's courses, as well as postgraduate master’s level education, 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 for medical reasons;
14. have the status of doctoral student;
15. are in the period between graduation from pre-university education and the beginning, in the same calendar year, of another form of uninterrupted day pre-university education organized according to the law;
16. are in the period between graduation of day courses of pre-university education, organized according to the law, and the beginning of university education, day courses, in the same calendar year;
17. are in the period between completion of a 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 the completion of a form of university education at the level of bachelor's or master's studies, as well as postgraduate master’s education, day courses, and the beginning, in the same calendar year, of another form of university education at the level of bachelor's or master's studies, day courses, attended without interruption;
19. are in the period between the completion of a form of postgraduate education, day courses, and the beginning, in the same calendar year, of another form of postgraduate education, day courses, attended without interruption;
20. are in the period of 60 days from the completion of compulsory education or, as the case may be, from graduation of day courses of pre-university, university at bachelor's or master's level, and postgraduate master’s education, organized according to the law, with or without graduation exam, for employment purposes or, as the case may be, for entering unemployment, calculated from the 1st day of the month following the completion of studies;
21. benefited from unpaid leave to attend training and professional development courses initiated or approved by the employer;
22. are in the period between graduation of day courses of higher medical education, with a bachelor's 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, from the allowance established according to measures for social protection of employees and other professional categories in the context of banning, suspending, or limiting economic activities caused by the epidemiological situation generated by the spread of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and/or of the allowance established according to support measures for employees and employers in the epidemiological context caused by the spread of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, as well as for stimulating employment.

In order to grant these rights, persons who have performed professional activities in the Member States of the European Union or other states benefit from the totalization of activity periods performed in these states as provided by this law.

If one or more children resulting from multiple pregnancies is classified as having a disability, for such child/children, the allowance is granted until the child/children reach the age of 3 years, as follows:

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

b) if the disability classification occurs after the child/children reaches the age of 2 years and the leave and allowance for raising the child were previously granted, by granting a new right from the date of inclusion in the disability category, if the request is submitted within 60 days from that date;

c) by granting a new right from the date of application submission if the deadlines provided in letters a) and b) have been exceeded.

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

• either of the biological parents of the child/children;
• 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 foster carer, only for their own natural or adopted children;
• the person who has been appointed guardian.

The same rights are also available 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 placement or emergency placement, except for the professional foster carer who can benefit from these rights only for his/her own children, as well as the person who has been appointed guardian.

In the case of 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 done taking into account the 12-month period prior to the month in which, as appropriate, the adoption was approved, the entrustment was made, or the placement or guardianship was established.

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

a) from the rights of the deceased parent, if he/she does not fulfil the conditions provided by the relevant legislation in force;

b) from the rights provided by the relevant legislation in force, if he/she fulfils the granting conditions.

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

The duration of the leave is extended accordingly in the event of overlapping two or more situations that generate this right. In such situations, 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 a period of up to 12 months from the end of the previous child-raising leave, if the calculation of the allowance results in a monthly allowance for raising the child lower than the allowance received before the birth of the latter child, the monthly allowance received for the previous child is granted.

The rights are granted if the applicant simultaneously 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 the raising and care of this/these child/children.

The rights representing allowances are established as follows:

a) starting with the day following the day the maternity leave ends, 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 fulfill the conditions for granting maternity leave and the corresponding allowance, pursuant to the law;

c) starting from the date of adoption, establishment of guardianship, placement or entrustment, if the application is submitted within 60 working days from the date on which these measures for child protection were approved or, as applicable, established;

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

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

The right to allowances ceases as of the day following the day when:

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

b) the death of the child occurred.

The right to the 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 legislation in force for entrusting the child for adoption;
4. the beneficiary no longer fulfills the conditions provided by the legislation in force for maintaining the placement measure;
5. the beneficiary is serving a custodial sentence or is in preventive detention for more than 30 days;
6. the child is abandoned or is interned in a public or private care institution;
7. the beneficiary has died;
8. in case the beneficiary no longer meets the conditions for granting rights;
9. the beneficiary realizes taxable income and the child has not reached the age of 2 years, or 3 years in the case of a child with disabilities;
10. it is found that for 3 consecutive months there are returned postal mandates.

The beneficiary of the rights is obliged to communicate in writing to the entity any change in his/her situation, which may result in the termination or suspension of payment of 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 child's birth, have realized for at least 12 months income from salaries and assimilated to salaries, income from independent activities, income from intellectual property rights, income from agricultural, forestry and fishery activities, subject to income tax, hereinafter referred to as taxable income, benefit from leave for raising the child up to 2 years, respectively 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 realized in the last 12 months of the last 2 years prior to the child’s 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 indicator, and its maximum amount cannot exceed the value of 8,500 lei.

The 12 months provided above may also consist entirely of periods in which persons have been in one or more of the following situations:

1. have benefited from unemployment allowance or have realized periods of contribution stage in the public pension system, under the conditions provided by special normative acts regulating collective redundancies;
2. have been registered with the county employment agency for the purpose of granting unemployment allowance;
3. have benefited from leave and social health insurance allowances;
4. have benefited from medical leave and allowances for the prevention of illnesses and recovery of work capacity, exclusively in situations resulting from work accidents or occupational diseases;
5. have benefited from invalidity pension;
6. are in a period of temporary interruption of activity, at the initiative of the employer, without the termination of the employment relationship, due to economic, technological, structural, or similar reasons;
7. have benefited from leave and monthly allowance for raising the child;
8. have benefited from leave and monthly allowance for raising or, as the case may be, caring for a disabled child;
9. have benefited from unpaid leave for raising the 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 sent on permanent mission abroad;
12. have served or are serving voluntary military service, have been mobilized, concentrated, or held as prisoners;
13. attend, without interruption, day courses of pre-university education, including within the "Second Chance" program, or, as the case may be, university courses 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 in cases of interruption due to medical reasons;
14. have the status of PhD student;
15. are in the period between completion of a form of pre-university education and the start, in the same calendar year, of another form of pre-university day courses, organized according to the law, attended without interruption;
16. are in the period between graduation of pre-university day courses, organized according to the law, and the start of university day education, in the same calendar year;
17. are in the period between completion of a form of university education, day courses, with or without a bachelor’s or diploma exam, and the start, in the same calendar year, of another form of university day education, attended without interruption;
18. are in the period between completion of a form of university education, at the bachelor's or master's degree level, as well as postgraduate education at the master's level, day courses, and the start, in the same calendar year, of another form of university education at bachelor’s or master’s level, day courses, attended without interruption;
19. are in the period between completion of a form of postgraduate education, day courses, and the start, in the same calendar year, of another form of postgraduate education, day 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 from pre-university, bachelor’s or master’s university day courses, and postgraduate master’s, organized according to the law, with or without a graduation exam, for employment or, as the case may be, for registration for unemployment, calculated from the 1st of the month following completion of studies;
21. have benefited from unpaid leave to participate in training and professional development courses at the initiative of the employer or with their approval;
22. are in the period between graduation from superior medical education day courses, with a bachelor's exam organized in the first session, and the start of the first residency after graduation;
23. have been sent on permanent mission abroad;
24. have 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 protection measures for employees and other professional categories in the context of prohibition, suspension or restriction of economic activities, caused by the epidemiological situation generated by the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and/or the allowance established by the support measures for employees and employers in the context of the epidemiological situation caused by the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, as well as for stimulating labor market participation.

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

If one or more children resulting from multiple births are classified as disabled, for him/them, the allowance is granted until the child/children reach the age of 3 years, as follows:

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

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

c) by granting a new right from the date the request is filed if the deadlines provided in lett. a) and b) have been exceeded.

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

• any of the child’s biological parents;
• any of the spouses to whom the child/children has/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 maternal assistant, only for his/her own natural or adopted children;
• the person who has been appointed as guardian.

The same rights are also given to one of the persons who adopted the child, to whom the child was entrusted for adoption, or who has the child in foster care or in emergency foster care, with the exception of 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 adopted a child, to whom the child was entrusted for adoption or who have a child in foster care or in emergency foster care, the granting of rights is made taking into account the 12 months preceding the one in which, as the case may be, the adoption was approved, the child was entrusted or foster care or guardianship was instituted.

If the parent who fulfilled the conditions to benefit from the leave and monthly allowance passes away, the surviving parent has the right to benefit, upon request, as follows:

a) from the rights of the deceased parent, if he/she does not meet the conditions stipulated 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 adoption, entrustment for adoption, foster care or emergency foster care situation.

The granting period of the leave is extended accordingly if two or more situations likely to generate this right overlap. In such cases only one allowance is awarded.

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

The rights are granted provided the applicant cumulatively meets the following conditions:

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

b) has domicile or residence on Romanian territory;

c) lives in Romania together with the child/children for whom the rights are requested and is responsible for their upbringing and care.

The rights representing allowances are established as follows:

a) starting from the day following the one on which the maternity leave terminated, according to the law, if the request is filed within 60 working days from that date;

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

c) starting from the date of adoption, guardianship, foster care or entrustment, if the request is filed within 60 working days from the date the measures for the child’s protection were approved or, as the case may be, instituted;

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

e) from the date of submitting the request, for all other situations, including if the request was filed after the deadlines set in lett. a)-c).

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

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

b) the child has passed away.

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

1. the beneficiary has lost parental rights;
2. the beneficiary has been removed from exercising guardianship;
3. the beneficiary no longer fulfills the conditions provided by the current legislation for entrustment for adoption;
4. the beneficiary no longer fulfills the conditions provided by the current legislation for maintaining foster care measures;
5. the beneficiary is serving a custodial sentence or is under preventive arrest for more than 30 days;
6. the child is abandoned or institutionalized in a public or private care institution;
7. the beneficiary has passed away;
8. the beneficiary no longer meets the conditions for granting rights;
9. the beneficiary realizes taxable income and the child has not reached the age of 2 years, or 3 years in the case of a child with disabilities;
10. it is found that for 3 consecutive months postal warrants have been returned.

The beneficiary of the rights is obliged to notify in writing the institution of any changes in their situation that may lead to termination or suspension of payment within 15 working days from their occurrence.

The notification 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 child's birth, have obtained for at least 12 months income from salaries and assimilated salaries, income from independent activities, income from intellectual property rights, income from agricultural, forestry and fishery activities, subject to income tax, hereinafter referred to as taxable income, benefit from child-raising leave for children up to the age of 2 years, or 3 years in the case of a child with a disability, 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 from the last 2 years prior to the child's 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 indicator, and the maximum amount cannot exceed the value of 8,500 lei.

The 12 months referred to above can be entirely constituted of periods in which persons have been in one or more of the following situations:

1. have benefited from unemployment indemnity or have realized periods of contribution stage in the public pension system, under the conditions stipulated by special normative acts regulating collective redundancies;
2. have been registered with the local employment agency for the granting of unemployment indemnity;
3. have benefited from leaves and allowances for social health insurance;
4. have benefited from medical leave and allowances for the prevention of illness and the recovery of work capacity, exclusively for situations resulting from work accidents or occupational diseases;
5. have benefited from disability pension;
6. are in a period of temporary work interruption, at the employer's initiative, without termination of the employment relationship, for economic, technological, structural or similar reasons;
7. have benefited from child-raising leave and monthly allowance;
8. have benefited from leave and monthly allowance for raising or, as appropriate, caring for a child with a disability;
9. have 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 beginning of another fixed-term employment contract;
11. have accompanied their spouse sent on permanent mission abroad;
12. have performed or are performing voluntary military service, have been mobilized, concentrated or in captivity;
13. attend, without interruption, full-time pre-university education courses, including through the "Second Chance" program, or, as appropriate, university studies at bachelor's or master's level, as well as postgraduate studies 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 in cases of course interruption for medical reasons;
14. have the status of doctoral candidate;
15. are in the period between the completion of a form of pre-university education and the beginning, in the same calendar year, of another form of pre-university education, full-time, organized according to the law, attended without interruption;
16. are in the period between graduation from full-time pre-university education, organized according to the law, and the beginning of university studies, full-time, in the same calendar year;
17. are in the period between the completion of a form of university education, full-time, with or without final exam or diploma, and the beginning, in the same calendar year, of another form of university education, full-time, attended without interruption;
18. are in the period between the completion of a form of university education, at bachelor's or master's level, as well as postgraduate master studies, full-time, and the beginning, in the same calendar year, of another form of university education at bachelor's or master's level, full-time, attended without interruption;
19. are in the period between the completion of a form of postgraduate education, full-time, and the beginning, in the same calendar year, of another form of postgraduate education, full-time, attended without interruption;
20. are in the period of 60 days from the completion of compulsory education or, as appropriate, from graduation of pre-university, university at bachelor's or master's level, and postgraduate master courses, organized according to the law, with or without graduation examination, for employment or, as appropriate, entry into unemployment, calculated from the 1st day of the month following completion of studies;
21. have benefited from unpaid leave to participate in professional training and improvement courses at the employer's initiative or with the employer's consent;
22. are in the period between graduation from full-time higher medical studies, with the licensing exam organized in the first session, and the beginning of the first residency after graduation;
23. have been sent on permanent mission abroad;
24. have 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 social protection measures for employees and other professional categories in the context of the 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 encouraging employment growth.

For the granting of these rights, persons who have carried out professional activities in EU Member States or in other states benefit from the totalization of the periods of activity carried out in these states under the conditions provided by this law.

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

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

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

• either of the natural parents of the child/children;
• either spouse to whom the child/children has/have been entrusted for adoption or has/have adopted the child/children;
• the person who has the child in foster care or in emergency foster care;
• the professional maternal assistant, only for their own natural or adopted children;
• the person who has been appointed as guardian.

The same rights are also enjoyed by 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 maternal assistant who can benefit from these rights only for their own children, as well as the person who has been 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 a child in foster care or in emergency foster care, the granting of rights is made taking into account the period of 12 months prior to the one in which, as the case may be, the adoption was approved, the entrustment was made, or the foster or guardianship was instituted.

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

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

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

The leave and the 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 the overlapping of two or more situations that could generate this right. In such situations, 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 of up to 12 months from the end of the previous child-raising leave, if, from the calculation of the allowance, the amount of the monthly allowance for raising the child is less than the amount received before the birth of the last child, the monthly allowance received for the previous child will be granted.

Rights are granted if the applicant cumulatively meets 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 with the child/children for whom the rights are requested and takes care of their upbringing and care.

The rights representing allowances are established as follows:

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

b) starting with the date of the child's birth, if the request is submitted within 60 working days from that date, in the case of 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, institution of guardianship, foster care, or entrustment, if the request is submitted within 60 working days from the date they were approved or, as appropriate, the child protection measures were instituted;

d) starting with the day after the entitled person starts earning 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 in case the request was submitted after the deadlines provided at letters a)-c).

The right to allowances ceases on the day following the one 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 died.

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

1. the beneficiary loses 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 placing the child for adoption;
4. the beneficiary no longer meets the conditions provided by the applicable legislation for maintaining the foster 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 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 years, or 3 years in the case of a child with a disability;
10. it is found that for 3 consecutive months postal orders are returned.

The beneficiary of the rights is obliged to communicate in writing to the entity any change in their situation, which could cause the payment of the rights to cease or be suspended, 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.

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

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

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

b) aid for natural gas;

c) aid for electricity;

d) aid for solid and/or petroleum-based fuels.

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

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

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

The average net monthly income up to which the heating aid is granted is 1,386 lei/person, for families, and 2,053 lei, for single persons.

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-based fuels.

The heating aid is granted to families and single persons, Romanian citizens, residing in Romania.

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

• are citizens of a member state of the European Union, a state belonging to the European Economic Area, the Swiss Confederation or other states, during the period they have their domicile or, as the case may be, residence in Romania;
• are foreign citizens or stateless persons who have been granted a form of protection in Romania and have their domicile or, as the case may be, residence in Romania;
• 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 in the previous chapter benefit monthly, including during the cold season, from an energy supplement in a fixed amount, granted depending on the sources of energy supply used, in the amount of:

The energy supplement is granted monthly, throughout the year