Baby bonus: 300 euros for babysitting or crèche. How to make the request

    Baby bonus: 300 euros for babysitting or crèche. How to make the request

    Once the statutory maternity period has ended, every mother is entitled to a monthly bonus of 300 euros: here's how to apply for it

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    Baby bonus, this unknown. There Fornero reform of 2012 introduced an important provision in favor of working mothers: once the maternity period permitted by law has ended, each mother is entitled to a monthly bonus of 300 euros in order to pay one babysitter or daycare. But not everyone * knows.





    For the bonus, 20 million euros were allocated for the three-year period 2013-2015 and of the 11 thousand that could have benefited from it only 3 thousand have applied for it. Thus, of those 20 million only 37% was used.

    Because? There seem to be three main reasons. First the little information on the childhood bonus: many, in fact, due to the lack of publicity, were not aware of this opportunity. To this was added the difficulty submitting the application online, which generated total chaos. Finally, the contribution of 300 is paid only if parental leave is waived, for which many will have weighed the two measures available and weighed the pros and cons.

    So let's take stock of the situation: the bonus may also be requested for 2014, always and only electronically, but for this we will have to wait until July, when the INPS will publish the notice. On the basis of the ISEE and the application submission order, a ranking will be drawn up and published within 15 days of the application submission deadline.

    WHO CAN APPLY - Working mothers, even adoptive or foster mothers, (employees or registered in the separate management) who are still within the 11 months following the end of the mandatory maternity leave period and working mothers (employees or registered in the separate management) can submit the request beneficiaries of the right to compulsory maternity leave for which the presumed date of birth is set within four months of the expiry of the notice.

    Even those who have already partially taken advantage of parental leave can apply for the bonus, but in this case the contribution may be requested for the months of leave not yet used.



    However, they cannot claim the bonus babysitter or crèche for self-employed women, working mothers who have benefited from the "family fund of the Bersani decree" and working mothers who are already totally exempt from paying for public or affiliated childcare services.

    DELIVERY AND DURATION - Depending on whether you choose a babysitter or an affiliated nursery school, the bonus will be paid through job vouchers for babysitters to be collected at the INPS offices or, in the case of asylum, the INPS itself will pay the facility upon exhibition of documentation certifying the use of the service.


    The bonus lasts for 6 months, as an alternative to six months of parental leave, for a total of € 1.800. Part-time workers will be able to access the contribution in a manner proportionate to their work performance and, in the event of a request for more children, an application must be submitted for each child.


    Germana Carillo

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