From Thursday, families in the Basque Country will be able to apply for EUR 200 from the Government for their children

Families in the Basque Autonomous Community will be able to apply from Thursday for the EUR 200 child supportgranted by the Government following the approval of the extension to four years of coverage. The measure will enter into force tomorrow, following its publication on Wednesday in the Official Gazette of the Basque Country (BOPV). The aid willnot be renewed ex officio, so in all cases it will be mandatory to submit a new application.

Applications may be submitted telematically and will have retroactive effects from 1 January this year, allowing families with children between the ages of three and four to receive assistance.

The main innovation is the extension ofthe age limit, which until now was provided from birth until the age of three, but with this new measure families will be able to receive this assistance for one more year, namely until the child reaches the age of four.

On the other hand, the new decree extends to single-parent families the additional aid of EUR 100 that large families receive, which will henceforth be paid from the age of four to the age of seven, which used to be received from three to seven years, but which has now been delayed by a year to be linked to the end of the EUR 200 universal aid.

In this regard, the Counsellor for Welfare, Youth and Demographic Challenge, Nerea Melgosa, has specified that these age groups also include widows and widows with dependent children who may apply for this financial contribution.

For the first time, support will be extended to tutorial and foster families, which will enable the Department of Welfare, Youth and Demographic Challenge to provide assistance to 52,000 families in the Basque Country, which means an additional 12,000 homes will be incorporated into the system.

To make all this possible, the Basque Government will invest EUR 85.8 million over the next four years, of which EUR 33.8 million will be earmarked for this same year 2026.

As of 2 July, applications for assistance may be processed on the official website www.euskadi.eus, in addition, the Government has made available to the public the telephone number 945 01 80 00 and the e-mail umeak@euskadi.eus and has distributed paper information guides to resolve doubts in various centres.