Acting Prime Minister Albin Kurti participated in a roundtable marking the International Day of Families, where he praised the steps taken by his government in supporting thousands of families, according to him.
Kurti said that “family policy and its well-being” would be the most accurate description of his government on the occasion of the International Day of Families, stressing that the family has been treated not as something separate or outside the development context, but as part of broader sectoral policies and the overall framework of decision-making.
“For the first time in Kosovo, we have started implementing child allowances, from which over 400,000 children have benefited. When we started with 10 and 20 euros, there was mockery and ridicule of such a policy, only for the same critics to later begin competing with larger electoral promises. Today, every family that meets the criteria receives allowances of 30 to 45 euros, depending on the number of children... Meanwhile, our commitment is that in the full mandate we are seeking again, we will double child allowances to 60 to 90 euros. In parallel, we have introduced maternity allowances, from which over 80,000 mothers have benefited. Just like for children, these were initially zero. They started at 170 euros per month and are currently 325.9 euros, with the goal of increasing them to 500 euros per month,” Kurti said, according to KosovaPress.He further stated that beyond numbers, this is a development policy with emancipatory social elements, noting that in his government, more than 100,000 women have opened bank accounts for the first time in order to receive child benefits.
This year, May 15 as the International Day of Families in Kosovo is marked with the theme “Families, Inequalities and Child Well-being.”
