The Spanish government is splashing the cash and every family could receive 200 euros per month from the government as part of a plan to reduce poverty. The move could cost in excess of 19,000 million euros. The plan is still in its preliminary phase but could be approved this year.
The government has announced that this benefit will be universal, meaning that all families with a child under the age of 18 will be eligible to receive it.
Regarding the requirements:
There will be no minimum or maximum income threshold for the household.
It will be granted for each dependent child, with no limit on the number of children.
Applicants must have legal residency in Spain.
Their municipal registration must be up to date.
You must present your ID card and family register.
It remains to be defined who would be the recipient of the payment in cases of joint custody, what will happen in situations of guardianship, foster care, or adoption, and how it will interact with other benefits (such as the IMV) or its tax treatment. Until regulations are in place, these points remain unresolved.
When will the universal child-rearing benefit take effect?
There is still no scheduled date for this measure to take effect. For now, the measure remains in the proposal phase within the “2030 Sustainable Development Strategy.”
Regarding funding, the government has proposed different scenarios: on the one hand, incorporating it into the General State Budget, or linking it to the budget allocated to the “2030 Sustainable Development Strategy” itself.
According to data published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) on January 1, 2025, there are 7,960,945 people under the age of 18 in Spain; therefore, since there are no income restrictions, this assistance would cost the government 1,592,189,000 euros per month, or just over 19.1 billion euros per year.