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The monthly pension of about 40,000 pensioners is less than 50,000 guilders in Hungary, while there are already 106 people whose monthly benefits exceed one million guilders. The average pension is 142,000 HUF, distorted by exceptionally high pensions. The minimum pension amount has been unchanged at HUF 28,500 for years, but many do not receive as much. They would eliminate the unjust system.
Almost 40,000 elderly people living in Hungary whose pensions do not reach 50,000 guilders a month, according to the latest data from the Hungarian State Treasury for February. They add that a significant part of those who are normally entitled to low benefits, exactly 25,641 pensioners, also receive benefits from abroad, according to the index.hu index.
The average pension last year was 142,000 HUF, but less than half of the two million pensioners will receive just this amount. The amount is pulled by the high pensions: 36,000 people receive a pension greater than 350,000 florins, while 106 people receive a benefit of one million, but 11 of them receive more than 2 million.
If we take them out of the equation: the average pension amount can be about 135 thousand guilders, which is just over a third of the average gross income, 397,400 guilders.
As the portal states: There is no upper limit for pensions in Hungary, so theoretically any high monthly benefit can turn out, but it also means that the person in question has to pay hundreds of millions in pension contributions.
“In no country is it possible to enforce the insurance principle in the old-age pension system indefinitely,” András Farkas, a pension expert, evaluated the system in the Index as why he considers the Hungarian system to be unfair. He also argued that there is a certain principle of solidarity in other countries, that is, there is a ceiling for extra benefits, which also helps to improve the situation of those who receive fewer benefits, and the burden on the care system is also less.
The bad situation of Hungarian pensioners is shown in the fact that, according to statistics, there are at least 800,000 elderly people who receive between 100 and 150 thousand florins per month alone. But it is also worrying that at least 17,000 people received only the minimum pension of HUF 28,500 or less per month: according to pension expert András Farkas, the amount unchanged since 2008 is problematic not only because the amount is far from the life allowance. dignified for the elderly, but it is also related to the fact that many social benefits, allowances and supports are linked to this.
The National Association of Retirees (NYOSZ) also considers that the system is unfair, so they suggest that we should move to a differentiated pension increase system: that is, those with a higher pension should have a smaller annual increase, and those with a higher pension. the lower pension should have a larger increase.
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