Social & Family · Family & child benefits
Madrid: Ayuso passes the "Unborn Child Law"
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Isabel Díaz Ayuso's PP regional government, with Vox support, passed a law counting an unborn child as a family member when calculating per-capita household income — so expectant families qualify earlier for grants, rent support and school-meal subsidies.
A concrete, low-cost pro-natalist mechanism from a prominent centre-right regional government, relevant as family policy and birth rates rise up the UK centre-right agenda.
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