Abstract

This publication signals the current problem which has emerged as an aftermath of implementation of the government “Family 500 plus” programme assumptions, which include educational benefits and affect the area of child support benefits, more precisely as regards the extension of their amount and the factors that determine it. An attempt has been made to interpret the regulations that are currently in force as regards a novelty of sorts, that is the educational benefit, programme assumptions accompanying its introduction, as well as its correlation with the child support benefit or the mutual effects exerted by those benefits under the previous state of law and de lege lata.

The analysis is of a contributory nature, though it also has some practical connotations since divergences of opinion emerged among legal representative and the judicature as to the application of previously binding regulations concerning those benefits, their interrelationship and effects under the present state of law. The above resulted in child support decisions that were unfavourable for the beneficiaries and as if crediting of child support debtor.