#Child benefit

The cabinet approved on Thursday a €12.5 million reform of child benefit that will increase payments for lower income families and widen income thresholds, with the measures due to take effect ...

An additional 17,000 families stand to get child benefit, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday, announcing an increase in both the amount of the benefit and the income limits. “The maximum ...

The House committee on labour has given the government three weeks to present its final position on a bill seeking to exclude agricultural subsidies from the Cyprus agricultural payments organisation (...

The House labour committee on Tuesday discussed plans to amend the current stipulation that parents accrue five years of residence in Cyprus before being able to claim child benefit, with ...

Benefits for foster families have not been adjusted for 15 years, MPs at the House labour committee heard on Tuesday, as they called for more government support for child benefits. Despite ...

Large families are set to get a boost as President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday announced improved benefits. Addressing the Pancyprian Organisation of Large Families on Mother’s Day, he said ...

The cabinet on Wednesday approved a one-off subsidy of €50 to €80 per child for children aged between 4 and 18, it said. The measure concerns those registered in the child benefit register. She ...

The government is planning to roll out a series of actions aimed at reconciling work and family life to improve birth rates, Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou said on Tuesday, stressing ...