Civic governemnt guarantee to continued family support, says Minister Novák

Only the Fidesz civic government can guarantee the preservation of family support, the minister in charge of families said in an interview published in Wednesday’s daily Magyar Nemzet.

Katalin Novák said living standards for the majority of Hungarians had improved, with the income of families with children up 13 percent last year.

Novák said “the largest home-creation programme of all time” would be under way in January and thirteenth month pensions will be gradually reintroduced, while support for mothers raising children under six months old will increase from July, she said.

Personal tax exemption for mothers with at least four children was introduced in January, and once the epidemic is defeated and the economy has recovered, the exemption will be extended to mothers with three children, she said.

Novák said much would be at stake in the 2022 general election. She said the opposition had planned to abolish the CSOK family home-creation subsidy during the 2018 election campaign, so “there is nothing new about their anti-family approach”, she said.