Peter Magyar's Activists Would Immediately Abolish 13th Month Pension, Pension Premium, Early Retirement

Retirees would face severe financial losses if the wishes of Peter Magyar's activists were to come true. Based on discussions within the Tisza Party's internal "program writing" group, the activists would immediately do away with Hungary's 13th month pension, the pension premium, and the Women40 (Nok40) program, which allows for early retirement. The issue of the elderly's death also regularly surfaces among the party program writers.

One of their long-standing pet peeves

This topic was already of high importance in Peter Magyar's group last year, and Tisza's program writers consistently argued for abolishing the 13th month pension.

One of them wrote at the end of December: "The 13th month pension should be abolished entirely." The same Tisza member argued similarly in August, mentioning that they hadn't heard Peter Magyar comment on the 13th month pension yet, a measure they deem to be extremely harmful. "It costs an incredible amount; we're simply not a rich enough country to pay people a 13th month pension. (...) My opinion is clear: an eventual new government must abolish the 13th month pension immediately, no matter the political cost." According to another party program writer, the problem is that if, for example, VAT on basic foods is reduced but the 13th month pension is abolished, most retirees won't calculate the difference. In other words, there are no new ideas, the solution remains: the 13th month benefit must be abolished.

Taxing Pensions

Explicitly anti-elderly opinions also appeared. Someone wrote that "the entire pension system, as it stands, is garbage." It was also stated that the 13th month pension serves to politically appease the elderly. The benefit was even compared to a 13th-month salary, which is tied to extra performance.

"The 13th month pension is a ridiculous handout to retirees," one program writer said, then argued that most people don't earn enough to cover their pensions even if they were to get back all the money they had paid into the system along with the interest. "We quickly realize that the retirees' contributions paid into the system aren't enough to cover even a quarter of the payouts. If everyone switched to private pensions, most retirees would starve to death out on the streets," claimed the Tisza activist.

Another member of Tisza's Discord group argued that "abolishing the 13th month pension is justified, but first, he fund needs to be built up. Pensions should be grossed, which would counter the feeling that they contribute nothing." Grossing pensions would mean making them subject to personal income tax, similar to wages.

Abolishing Women40 and the Pension Premium

Another member went even further, stating that the Women40 (Nok40) program, which allows women to retire after forty years of work, "is nonsense too; it should either be abolished, or there should also be a Men40 (Ferfiak40), or neither." Another commenter targeted the pension premium, writing: "What? A premium? Why does a retiree get a premium??? Premium??? If I work more and better, I get a bonus. On what basis does a retiree get one? Because they stayed retired better? Voted for me better? Didn't die better? Instead of giving a pension premium, we should give proper pensions that people can live on," was the peculiar reasoning from the Tisza member. This found agreement, with another program writer indicating that they were also "done" with the pension premium, joking that the pension premium is like "retirees are some kind of corporate employees."

The death of retirees is a recurring topic

The death of the elderly is a regularly resurfacing issue in these discussions.

Beyond the previous comments, one user, for example, wrote: "Why is there a pension? Why do people get pensions?? Why do we give them pensions?? Why do we pay them when they do nothing?" To this, another responded: "Yeah, there's no benefit from them anymore, I know, so we should at least legalize euthanasia."

Summarizing the stance of the Tisza Party's program writers, it can be stated that retirees cannot expect anything good to come of a possible Peter Magyar and his group win in the 2026 elections.

They're not alone in this

Even Peter Magyar himself doesn't speak any more kindly about retirees than his activists do—just listen to the publicly released audio recordings.

Peter Magyar's advisor, the so-called"green baron" Gyorgy Rasko, didn't just hurl insults; he argued in a Facebook post that the mass death of the elderly would benefit the Tisza Party. (From 19:28 in the video.)

Regarding the abolition of the 13th month pension, they seem to be preaching to the choir in the program-writing group: Peter Magyar's politicians repeatedly campaign against the benefit, and economist Maria Zita Petschnig, who joined Tisza, also recently openly stated that she does not support the 13th month pension. (From 2:2:24:10 in the video.)