ZAGREB, 8 Jan 2022 - Stay-at-home parents, organised in different associations or individually, will be filing applications with the High Administrative Court as of Monday to test the legality of the decision by the City of Zagreb administration to revoke or considerably reduce their benefits.
The civil initiative "The Future Is in Children" will submit their application on Monday, "In the Name of the Family" will do so on Monday or Tuesday, and the Croatian Association of Stay-at-Home Parents on Friday, the executive director of the "In the Name of the Family" association, Željka Markić, announced at a press conference outside the Ministry of Justice and Administration on Saturday.
Markić said they were doing this to protect themselves from the arbitrariness and illegal decision of the City of Zagreb. She recalled that on 9 December last year the City Assembly, acting on the proposal of Mayor Tomislav Tomašević, amended the decision on financial aid for over 5,800 stay-at-home parents who are taking care of more than 21,000 children, including about 6,000 of kindergarten age.
Markić said that the retroactive cancellation of a decision made by an institution was illegal and unconstitutional, as shown by previous judgments handed down by the Constitutional Court.
