!!!Familienbeihilfen

Family Allowances, Federal aid programme aimed at financially 
assisting families with children. Eligibility for this programme 
depends on the number of children, and is independent of the 
family´s income. The programme includes: a) Federal aid for 
families with children: those eligible include everyone belonging to a 
household with children (whether the child is biological, adopted, a 
step-child or foster child); b) Federally subsidised tickets for 
public transport; c) Federally subsidised school books; d) Federal aid 
for newborns: those eligible include Austrian women residing in 
Austria and foreign women who have been residing in Austria for at 
least three years; assistance is available for each newborn child. Aid 
is subject to certain conditions (i.e. transcript of required prenatal 
and postnatal medical examinations of mother and child). Applications 
for aid (with the exception of subsidised school books) are handled by 
the tax offices.

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Federal aid for families is financed exclusively by funds managed by 
the Federal Ministry for Youth and the Family. Those required to pay 
contributions to the fund are employers employing workers in Austria, 
with the exception of the federal government (the Austrian Railways 
and the Post Office), the provinces, the larger municipalities and 
public hospitals. A portion of federal taxes and contributions from 
the provinces are also paid into the fund.

!Literature
T. Tomandl, Grundriss des oesterreichischen Sozialrechts, 
1989.


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