FAMILY ALLOWANCE FOR SOCIAL CHILD PROTECTION – REFERRAL TO THE RIGHT TO CHILD ALLOWANCE

Abstract

Family allowance for social protection of children is defined in the Law on
Protection of Children, as follows: children allowance, special allowance, single financial
assistance for a new-born child and parental allowance for a child. The thesis
deals with the most common social financial assistance for the family with children
and their right to child allowance.
Most often, the child allowance is granted to all families whose total family
income is below a certain financial threshold and is designed to help cover the costs
of supporting a child to a certain age. Sometimes this right is conditioned by the employment
of parents, schooling of children, vaccines and health examinations.
The European Union Law prescribes that child’s allowances/benefits of the
child allowance are taken over the country of residence where the EU citizen lives or
works, regardless of the nationality. Thus, by applying the comparative method, the
thesis makes an overview of the realization of the right to child allowance in some of
the EU countries.
Using the legal and sociological method, an analysis of the right to child allowance
in the Republic of North Macedonia is also elaborated.
Further in the thesis, a combination of quantitative and qualitative research
methods is used, analysing secondary data. The main instrument used in the thesis
analysis is the critical review of the applicable legislation concerning the right to
child allowance and the system of social protection of children.