Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced a seven-point family protection action plan in his state-of-the nation address in Budapest on Sunday.
“This is Hungary’s answer to challenges, rather than immigration,” the prime minister said. Listing the points of the action plan, Orban said
every woman under 40 years of age will be eligible to a preferential loan when they first get married.
The preferential loan of the family home purchase scheme (csok) will be extended; families raising two or more children will now also be able to use it for purchasing resale homes.
The government will repay 1 million forints of the mortgage loan of families with two or more children. This measure was first announced in August 2017 for families with three or more children, with the government paying off 1 million forints of families’ mortgages for every third and subsequent child from January 2018. The measures has now been extended to include families raising two children.
Women who have had and raised at …More