families

Over 85,500 Romanian children have one or both parents away, working abroad, and 1,001 have ended up in foster care while the rest have been left with relatives and family friends, according to data centralized by the Labor and Family Protection Ministry and released Friday.

About 100,000 Romanian beneficiaries of single-parent family allowances and complementary family allowances will no longer receive these social benefits with the coming into force of a bill lowering the required income cap to 370 lei (EUR1=RON4.2597) per family member from the current RON470.

The families of the 12 miners and rescuers who perished in the blasts occurring Saturday in Romanian mine Petrila, as well as the families of other victims of the same incident will receive financial aid ranging between 5,000 and 10,000 lei (EUR1 = RON3.8258).