From this autumn, new subsidies will provide significant help to Hungarian families. Based on the previous announcements of the Ministry of Culture and Innovation, the nursery fee subsidy can be applied for from 2 September, which can be used by parents in all institutions and services providing nursery care regardless of the maintaining organisation. In addition, from 1 October, it will be easier for specially taxed self-employed to use certain state-supported loan schemes (CSOK Plus, Village CSOK loan, baby expecting subsidy). Measures adapted to the new needs will further help tens of thousands of families.
Demography and Mental Competitiveness in the European Union" was the title of a roundtable discussion held at the MCC Fest in Esztergom, where our experts highlighted the links between the European demographic situation, mental health and competitiveness. The participants agreed that the mental health and childbearing behaviour of Europeans is a crucial, even fateful issue for the future and competitiveness of the European Union.
Baby Expecting Subsidy has been helping young couples who want to have children since 1 July 2019. Almost half a million parents-to-be across the country have taken advantage of the subsidy so far: since the start of the program, 246,000 families have applied for subsidy with a total of 211,000 children born so far. With the baby expecting subsidy, families have so far received HUF 2400 billion of government support. The subsidy is popular across the country, with high demand regardless of the size, location and income of the people living in the communities. To further help, the government has granted an extension until 1 July 2026 for couples who have taken the subsidy in the first two years following its introduction but have not yet had the expected child.
There is a wealth of research showing that excessive mobile phone use is addictive, negatively affects students' learning performance, and has a negative impact on young people's social life and health. As in many European countries, a uniform regulation will therefore restrict the use of smart devices during school hours in Hungary from 1 September, a decision that the majority of Hungarians agree with, according to a KINCS survey.
Bonds - Family research among Hungarians living beyond the borders was published by the Mária Kopp Institute for Demography and Families (KINCS), the Youth Research Institute and the Research Institute of National Policy, in which the habits of choosing one’s (life) partner of Hungarians living abroad and Hungarians living in the diaspora were studied, as well as their attitudes towards having children and starting a family. In the case of Transcarpathian Hungarians, the situation of families torn was also discussed.
Hungarians understand and take seriously the demographic challenges that most of them believe threaten Europe’s future as a whole, according to the latest representative survey by the Mária Kopp Institute for Demography and Families (KINCS). The overwhelming majority of respondents believe that the new European Commission should pay much more attention to families, and eight out of ten also agree that the need to support families and childbearing should be raised at EU level during the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, which starts on 1 July 2024.
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