2015 budget to hit families, say opposition parties
Budapest (MTI) – Hungary’s 2015 budget contains measures that will impact families raising children, two opposition parties said on Saturday.
Next year’s budget bill would reduce funds to support families raising children by 75 billion forints (EUR 242m), compared with allocations provided this year, said Lajos Korozs, of the Socialist Party. The reduction would impact the maternity allowance and family benefits, he told a press conference.
He criticised the planned elimination of social benefits and turning increased funds towards foster work. Korozs also criticised the government’s plan to set employment as a criterion for receiving family benefits and called for its withdrawal.
Bernadett Szel, co-chair of green LMP, said that the planned elimination of the social benefit would have unforeseeable consequences to the 3.3 million Hungarians living under the subsistence level. The hardest hit among them will be children, she told a press conference. Szel said LMP has proposed increasing the childcare benefit by the rate of annual inflation retroactively, from 2008, and to maintain the social benefit scheme for the most vulnerable groups.
Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters
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