Poland's president, Karol Nawrocki, announced his intention to veto a law that would have extended social welfare payments, including child benefit, to Ukrainian refugees until March 2026. The current support program expires at the end of September. About one million Ukrainians, mostly women and children, have fled to Poland since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. The veto forces the government to find a solution to prevent hundreds of thousands of refugees from losing legal status on October 1. Nawrocki argued that child benefits should be paid only to Ukrainians who work in Poland and said public opinion and financial circumstances have fundamentally changed.
Although the news came like a thunderbolt, it is likely that the timing of the announcement was carefully planned. On Monday, just a day after Ukraine celebrated its Independence Day, Poland's new president, Karol Nawrocki, announced that he intended to veto the Ukraine Aid Law put forward by the government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk. The purpose of the bill was to extend to March 2026 social welfare payments such as child benefit to Ukrainian refugees in Poland.
Ever since Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, about one million Ukrainians have fled to neighboring Poland. Most of them are women and children. The president's veto puts Donald Tusk's government in a bind: It now has to come up with a solution to ensure that hundreds of thousands of refugees are not without legal status on October 1. Benefits only for refugees in employment?
[Child benefit] 800Plus should only be paid to those Ukrainians who have a job in Poland," Nawrocki told the press in Warsaw, adding that Ukrainians were already at an advantage in the Polish healthcare system because they receive treatment regardless of whether they work and pay health insurance.
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