Premier Matteo Renzi has said the 2015 budget law will extend the 80-euro-a-month tax bonus that the government introduced this year for low earners to families who have a newborn child.
"From January 1 we will give the 80 euros not just to those who earn less than 1,500 euros a month, but also to mums who have a child, for the first three years," Renzi told Mediaset television on Sunday.
The leader of the centre-left Democratic Party added that the government has set aside 500 million euros in the budget to finance this. President Giorgio Napolitano is set to sign the budget bill later on Monday and it should then go to a Lower House committee to start its path through parliament on Tuesday.
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