Hungary’s nurses will receive a wage hike of 21 percent from January next year, while creche workers and employees in the social and cultural sectors will see their salaries rise by 20 percent, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday.
In his regular interview to public broadcaster Kossuth Rádió, Orbán said economic activity in Hungary had returned to pre-pandemic levels, giving the government an opportunity to enact measures that had not been possible until now. The prime minister noted that Hungary’s pensioners will each receive a bonus of 80,000 forints (EUR 223), while families will receive refunds of their 2021 personal income tax payments.
The government’s personal income tax exemption for Hungarians under 25 will benefit around one million people, Orbán said. He also said the government was “fighting” to
The government’s personal income tax exemption for Hungarians under 25 will benefit around one million people, Orbán said. He also said the government was “fighting” to
restore the 13th month pension in one go next year.
The conditions for this are not yet in place, “but if everyone in the country does their job well over the coming months, it will be possible”, he added.
The Hungarian government must stick to its utility price cuts, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday.
PM Orbán added that several European countries were facing utility crises because “Brussels bureaucrats” believed rising utility prices were the way to transition to renewable energy sources.
“They’re deliberately raising the prices,”
Orbán said, adding that views on the issue were divided along political lines, and that Hungary’s left wing wanted utility prices to be set by the market.
“If we accept the market energy prices favoured by the left, an average family would be paying 370,000 forints (EUR 1,031) more in utility costs annually,” the prime minister said.
“If we accept the market energy prices favoured by the left, an average family would be paying 370,000 forints (EUR 1,031) more in utility costs annually,” the prime minister said.
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So desperate to be re-elected. Then why change the contracts earlier in the year, more than 5000 healthcare staff left and yet now they’re looking to raise wages. Imagine how those ex healthcare staff now feel.
The raising of the minimum wage leads us to believe that it’s imminent, yet more consultations seem to follow just to string out the process. Price hikes are now. People need higher wages now. Dangling a carrot on a stick is the phrase I’d use. Stop the false promises, stop scaremongering, stop the election rhetoric and start treating us Hungarians with respect.
Sounds great!
Never voted for Fidesz before but this time it is Fidesz.
The opposition would destroy Hungary. They hate us.