Parental allowance to increase as of next year

The Chamber of Deputies has approved a draft bill that will increase the parental allowance by 50,000 crowns to 350,000 crowns from January of 2024. The increase will apply only to children born as of the beginning of next year. This latter decision has come under fire from some MPs and from parents, who say it is unfair to the parents of babies born just days or weeks ahead of the set date.  The opposition ANO party failed to push through a more dramatic increase in the parental allowance to 400,000 crowns. The proposal will now go to the Senate for debate. Under Czech law parents can determine how much they will receive each month from the set allowance.