EU Court: Illegal to exclude foreign nationals from family assistance
Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 2 September 2021 The Court of Justice of the European Union declared illegitimate the exclusion of foreign nationals without a long-term permit from the baby bonus, established in 2015, and the maternity allowance for unemployed mothers. As regards the childbirth allowance, the Court notes that it is granted automatically to families meeting certain objective criteria defined by law, without any individual and discretionary assessment