Pensioners receive the 13th-month pension

The prime minister said the institution of 13th-month pensions “has its opponents” such as “Brussels bureaucrats, Hungarian economists, and the opposition that would scrap it.”

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said pensioners were paid the 13th-month pension on Wednesday.

“This is a great achievement, for which each player in the Hungarian economy works each day,” the prime minister said in a Facebook video.

He said the institution of 13th-month pensions “has its opponents” such as “Brussels bureaucrats, Hungarian economists, and the opposition that would scrap it.”

PM Orbán said his government had set the goal back in 2010 “to build a country where senior compatriots are appreciated”. The 13th-month pension is an expression of that appreciation, he said, adding that “as long as we are at the helm everybody could rest assured that 13th-month pensions will continue arriving.”