Questão jurídica principal
Whether parents may receive premium subsidies for children living outside the canton when a maintenance duty exists.
Decisão extraída
Yes. The decisive link is the parents' maintenance obligation, not the child's residence; therefore children outside Solothurn can be included in the family subsidy calculation.
Fundamentação extraída
The purpose of the scheme is to grant the subsidy to the family members who bear the insurance costs through maintenance. Under § 2 VO PV, an in-education child is attributed to the family for subsidy calculation if the relevant child tax deduction was granted, which presupposes maintenance duty. Since that duty is independent of the child's place of residence, the child's residence elsewhere in Switzerland or abroad does not exclude entitlement.