Hungarian govt announces pension bonus, faces tax battle with Brussels and gun scandal
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At its meeting on Wednesday, the government decided on a 1.6 percent supplementary pension increase, meaning that an average of 51,155 forints will be paid to every pensioner this year, the minister leading the Prime Minister's Office announced on Wednesday's Government Information. Gergely Gulyás reminded that a decision had already been made on the supplementary pension increase, and the government has now decided on the exact amount.
Hungarian govt announces pension bonus, faces tax battle with Brussels and gun scandal
The government has decided on a 1.6 percent inflation-linked pension top-up, Gergely Gulyás, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office, told a weekly press briefing on Wednesday. Pension bonus, inflation Gulyás said the top-up would translate as 51,155 forints per pensioner, on average, with 47,200 forints to be paid retroactively in November and the rest in December. He added that the top-up would cost the budget 112 billion forints. Gulyás noted…
According to Gergely Gulyás, he severely criticizes the Tisza Party for carrying a weapon at a public event by one of its leading figures, Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi. The minister who heads the Prime Minister's Office said: everyone must reject calls for violence, and the Tisza Party's hateful rhetoric is reaching a level in public life not seen since the 1990s.
The minister leading the Prime Minister's Office spoke about this on the government information service. It will be paid together with the November pension.
The government decided on the amount of the supplementary pension increase - Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky's bodyguard was shot, he shot himself with his own gun.
Gergely Gulyás announced on Wednesday: a 1.6 percent pension increase will be retroactively granted to seniors, which means an average increase of more than 50 thousand forints.
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