At this point, you can get a medal, flowers and a handshake of the president for a long time. Awards shall be awarded to persons who have survived at least 50 years in 1 marriage. Only in 2023 about 80 1000 medals were issued.
In the erstwhile term, the legislature received a petition (below you will find her scan) assuming the payment of a financial award for couples who were not rushed to divorce. The longer the internship, the higher the financial contribution. Work on the motion was suspended for a while, but the senators leaned over it again.
Marriage Jubilee. What does the task propose?
The benefit would only apply to couples who are at least half a century after the matrimony (the separation will not number as an internship). Initially, after 50 years of marriage, the benefit would amount to PLN 5 1000 and increase by PLN 500 all 5 years, up to PLN 8,000 after 80 years, without the advanced limit.
50 years of matrimony – 5000 PLN
55 years of matrimony – PLN 5500
60 years of matrimony – 6000 PLN
65 years of matrimony – PLN 6500
70 years of matrimony – 7000 PLN
75 years of matrimony – 7500 PLN
80 years of matrimony – 8000 PLN
It is besides planned to value the benefit (as in the case of pensions for example) and to exempt it from income tax. Applications would be submitted to municipalities or cities, analogous to another household benefits.
What was the thought of money for long - word marriage? Money
Citizen's thought went to the Senate, where senators, mostly those from the Law and Justice Service, accepted it as their own – says Wyborcza.biz. The draft bill was besides commissioned. The task is presently at the phase of the assumptions developed by the Legislative Office of the Senate, and in June was discussed at the sessions of the legislature Committee on Petitions.
The law was originally foreseen to enter into force as early as 1 July 2025 (meaning... yesterday), but the authors postponed the deadline to 1 January 2026 in order to let the adjustment of the IT systems in offices and to safe the funds in the budget.
The task creates crucial controversy for financial reasons. The first estimates of PLN 100 million, however, proved to be heavy understated. "In 2025, couples with 50-year-old and longer-standing are 186 thousand. This would mean that next year they would should be paid PLN 930 million" - we read in the article.
A billion zlotys a year (project assumes a cyclical award) is simply a large sum. Senator Robert Mamątow (PiS) so proposed an amendment that the benefit should be paid only once, after 50 years, in the amount of PLN 5,000. Thus, couples would no longer be given money at the next circular Jubilees.
Senator Michał Seweryński (PiS) noted that specified a sum is not that large. –
– present a billion zlotys must be referred to the full budget. 20 years ago, PLN 1 billion was a gigantic amount, in today's budget a billion of it is no longer specified a immense amount – he argued.
However, the thought did not gain approval from the Ministry of Finance or the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy, which indicates that the household Benefits Act is intended to support the household in supporting children, alternatively than the elderly. The prize would so should be paid from another pool.
Senators were enthusiastic about the thought of rewarding marriages, but the task would inactive gotta pass through the Sejm, again through the legislature and gain the president's signature at the end. Only then would he enter into force. So he inactive has a long way to go, if he leaves the plan phase at all.
