Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, former interior minister in Donald Tusk’s government and now one of his closest advisers, stated in an interview for Polsat News that the social programs of the Law and Justice government create social margins.
Sienkiewicz explained to the astonished journalist that social programs are aimed at people who “take and give nothing to society” and further that “the rulers give money without looking at whether anyone works or not”.
The PO has never had a heart for social programs introduced and efficiently implemented by the Law and Justice government over 7 years, but in recent months it has retreated from their criticism, and the PO’s leading politicians, including Donald Tusk himself, even assured that if they return to power, “nothing given by PiS will be taken away by them.”
Sienkiewicz returned to the PO’s earlier rhetoric, but he used extremely brutal terms, and since he is now one of Tusk’s closest advisers, all indications are that the PO has pursued a strategy of attracting voters by stigmatizing and harassing them. humiliate.
Coincidentally, it was 7 years ago yesterday that the Family 500 plus program was introduced (it was launched on April 1, 2016), of which, according to the Ministry of Family and Social Policy, an astronomical amount of almost PLN 230 billion went to families raising children.
Let us remind you that because the benefit is paid to each child from birth to the age of 18, the family receives PLN 6,000 per year for each child. PLN, and for the entire period from raising a child to adulthood, the amount of PLN 108 thousand.
Currently, the program covers more than 7 million children (including about 400,000 children from Ukraine) in more than 4.5 million families, and the annual cost is PLN 41 billion.
The Family 500 plus program significantly reduced poverty in families raising children, and in many families it eliminated it altogether, which for many years was an embarrassment to the Third Republic of Poland.
Contrary to the negative opinions of the opposition and related media, the 500 plus family program clearly increases the number of births compared to the 2014 forecasts of the Central Bureau of Statistics, ie prepared before the announcement by Law and Justice.
The number of births in Poland from 2016 to 2022 is clearly higher than the number resulting from the 2014 demographic forecast of the Central Statistical Office, ie the period when no pronatal program was planned, and in relation to the -called mean prognosis.
This increase in the number of births was, of course, also influenced by other factors: a sharp rise in wages, a sharp fall in the unemployment rate, stabilization of employment, a strong increase in the number of places in day care centers and kindergartens, and a slight but still the housing situation continues to improve, especially for young people.
Partly thanks to the introduction of the Family 500 plus program, an average of more than 30,000 more children were born each year in Poland than the 2014 forecast of the Central Statistical Office, the fertility rate rose, it is very clearly rising in families from “second and third child”
Care capital
This process has been reinforced by the introduction of the “care capital” for the second and each subsequent child, amounting to PLN 12,000, paid for 2 years at PLN 500 per month or PLN 1,000 per year for the second and each subsequent child. PLN per month.
The Family 500 plus program not only significantly strengthened Polish families financially, but also led to the birth of nearly 200,000 children. more children than resulted from the forecasts of the Central Bureau of Statistics prepared before the implementation (only 2021 caused a drop in the number of births due to the covid pandemic, and in 2022 the war over the eastern border had a negative effect).
Finally, in view of this astronomical amount of more than PLN 230 billion transferred to families raising children in Poland in 7 years, one has to wonder to whom this money was paid under the rule of PO-PSL, who took over, and it would be good if politicians from both parties finally explained it to Polish public opinion.
However, not only do they not answer this fundamental question, but one of Tusk’s closest advisers, Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, allowed himself to enlist the help of more than 4.5 million families and more than 7 million children, among others, creating a social margin.
According to the minister of the Tusk government, “these people are only taking and giving nothing to Polish society”, so it is probably high time that the Poles wake up and put a man with such views where he belongs “to the dustbin of history”.
Source: wPolityce