Katalin Novák reported on the results and novelties of Hungarian family policy at a summit of the Political Network for Values organisation in Columbia. In a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Monday, the Ministry of Human Capacities’ Minister of State for Family and Youth Affairs highlighted that Hungary has become a basis of reference when it comes to family support measures.
“The Hungarian family policy system has become a point and basis of reference”, the Ministry of Human Capacities’ Minister of State for Family and Youth Policy Katalin Novák said on Hungarian M1 television’s Tuesday morning current affairs program.
The United States regards the Hungarian family support system as a forward-looking model which is well worth following, the Minister of State for Family and Youth Affairs at the Ministry of Human Capacities said on the public service television news channel M1 on Monday.
“Migration poses a threat to both healthcare and education, in addition to shaking the foundations of the welfare state,” Parliamentary State Secretary Bence Rétvári from the Ministry of Human Resources said on Wednesday on Kossuth Radio’s “Good morning, Hungary!” show.
From 1 July the interest-subsidised loans provided under the family housing benefit scheme (‘csok’) will also be available for the purchase of used homes, and families will be able to apply for the new child support in respect of children born after 1 July, Katalin Novák announced.
“This year, pensions will be increasing by 2.7 percent, the increased pensions will be arriving on bank accounts on 11 January and the post office will begin deliveries on 16 January; pensions will be increasing by an annual 42 thousand forints in the case of an average pension”, Bence Rétvári said.
Following a submission by Minister of Human Capacities Prof Dr. Miklós Kásler, the Government adopted Government Decree 206/2018 (XI.10) on the establishment of the Institute for Research on the Hungarian Peoples and the amendment of related legislation.
The cultures of the Roma and Hungarian people have mutually influenced one another over the centuries, and the two peoples share a common passion for family, faith and respect for traditions, the Minister of Human Capacities said at the meeting of the Roma Coordination Council held on Monday in Budapest.
“There will be another significant wage increase for people working in healthcare services”, Minister of Human Capacities Miklós Kásler said at a professional conference on Monday.
At the end of World War II, deportation to the Gulags affected every twelfth Hungarian, said Bence Rétvári at the central commemoration held on the occasion of the memorial day of Hungarian political prisoners and forced labourers deported to the Soviet Union.