The State Secretary for Family and Youth informed about the family protection measures of the government.
“With relation to the current migration crisis that Hungary is relying on its own domestic resources; the Government would like to support the Hungarian people and Hungarian families”, Katalin Novák, the State Secretary for Family and Youth told a press conference about the World Congress of Families in Budapest.
Katalin Novák told reporters that at its meeting on Wednesday the Cabinet had adopted a family protection programme that will introduce further measures to assist families from next year.
Providing further details with regard to the measures, Ms. Novák said that starting on 1 January 2018 116 thousand women with student loans will be affected by the opportunity to suspend the repayment of their loans for a period of three years beginning in the third month of pregnancy in the case of their first child. With the arrival of their second child, loan repayment will not only be suspended, but in addition 50 percent of their student loan will be waived, while in the case of a third child the loan will be written off entirely.
