The monthly allowance for child raising is granted in accordance with the provisions of GEO no. 111/2010 on leave and the monthly child-raising allowance, with subsequent amendments and completions, and the METHODOLOGICAL RULES for the application of the provisions of GEO 111/2010.

BENEFICIARIES:

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

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

• are within the 60-day period from graduation of full-time pre-university/university studies, organized according to the law, with bachelor’s/graduate/diploma examination, for the purpose of employment/continuing studies/entering unemployment, according to the law.
• have accompanied their spouse sent on permanent mission abroad;
• have received unemployment benefits, granted in accordance with the law;
• have received health insurance leave and allowances, according to the law;
• have completed periods recognized as contribution periods in the public pension system under the conditions provided in art. 38 para. (1) of Law no. 19/2000 on the public pension system and other social insurance rights, with subsequent amendments and completions;
• have completed contribution periods in the public pension system under the conditions provided by special regulations governing collective redundancies;
• have completed, in the public pension system, before the entry into force of GEO no. 44/2006, contribution periods based on social insurance contracts;
• have benefited from the monthly allowance for child raising up to the age of 2, or up to the age of 3 in the case of a child with a disability; have received disability pensions;
• have taken unpaid leave to attend training and professional development courses initiated by the employer or with the employer’s consent, organized under the law;
• have worked under an individual employment contract abroad, based on bilateral government agreements concluded by Romania with other states, during part of the 12 months preceding the child’s birth;
• are in a period of temporary interruption of activity, at the initiative of the employer, without termination of the employment relationship, for economic, technological, structural, or similar reasons, according to the law;