Hungary’s government will pay a full month’s worth of extra pension benefits, dubbed the 13th month pension, next February, Katalin Novák, the families minister, said on Facebook on Wednesday.
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Payments will be made to 2.5 million eligible recipients such as pensioners and others receiving pension-type benefits, Novak said.
The government reintroduced the first “week” of the annual pension bonus — equivalent to a full month’s pension — in 2021 and had planned to add the second week to the
The government reintroduced the first “week” of the annual pension bonus — equivalent to a full month’s pension — in 2021 and had planned to add the second week to the
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bonus in 2022.
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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said early in October: “We can certainly return two weeks [of the pension bonus] at the beginning of next year. But, if we don’t make any mistakes, and if the government’s growth-driving economic policy is successful in the coming three months, … then I see a chance early next year to return not just two weeks, but a full month of the pension bonus sometime around early February.”
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Source: MTI
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1 Comment
It should make a difference at voting time. Why not?
We are eligible but my wife and I don’t get, didn’t ask for Hungarian retirement .