Flemish social partners reached an agreement on the basic principles for the Flemish child allowances. They want the reform of the child allowance system to be efficient and solid thus assuring legal certainty to all families.
The new system should be simple, transparent and facing social realities such as growing child poverty, changing family relation, the situation of one parent families, the budgetary context…
The social partners agree with the Flemish government choosing for a basic allowance independent of the number of children in the family. As costs related to children vary according to age, social partners nonetheless plea for maintaining age modulated basic child allowances. The cost of older children tend to be substantially higher and account for a higher share in the family budget.