Good news was announced by Mihály Varga, who posted about how the real value of pensions developed during the time of the Orbán governments.
In 2010, the government promised to preserve the real value of pensions. The government not only kept this commitment, but also exceeded it, since the amount of pensions has doubled since 2010, and their purchasing power has improved by 20 percent, the finance minister wrote in his Facebook post.
In view of the inflation unleashed due to the war and the sanctioned energy crisis, the government raised pensions by 15 percent in January this year, and will implement another 3.5 percentage point increase in November.
"On an annual level, with the additional pension increase of 3.5 percentage points in November - together with the increase in the amount of the December pension - pensioners will receive HUF 84,916 more on average. For the approximately 2.5 million pensioners, the additional pension increase amounts to nearly HUF 190 billion," Mihály Varga pointed out, leaving the really good news at the end of the post:
"In January, we will raise pensions again, by another 6%, and in February, pensioners can count on the 13th month's benefit."
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