Brutal Losses: How Tisza's Package Would Burden Seniors

The Tisza Party's leaked economic convergence program would impose dramatic burdens on pensioners: an average retiree could lose 423,000 forints a year, while those working alongside their pension could face losses of up to 2.2 million forints annually, as calculated by Ellentpont.

Calculations by Ellenpont

Based on this, an average widow(er)’s pension recipient would receive about 35 thousand forints less per month, amounting to 423 thousand forints less annually.

The situation is even more severe if the pensioner works full-time: according to our calculations, the individual’s own pension is 246,187 forints (net), the widow(er)’s pension is 30 percent of the own pension, or 73,856 forints, the gross salary is 687,100 forints (September 2025, KSH), and on average, the pensioner would lose an additional 20,515 forints per month due to the abolition of the 13th month pension under the proposed measures.

Calculations by Ellenpont

The scenario clearly shows that the draft would strike hardest at widows/widowers and older citizens who work: a pensioner in employment could receive up to 2.2 million forints less per year.

Elements of the draft austerity package were not only applied by left-wing governments before 2010, but are also regularly promoted in public by the current advisors of the Tisza Party, in alignment with the recommendations of the European Commission and the OECD.

Cover photo: Peter Magyar, President of the Tisza Party (Source: AFP/Attila Kisbenedek)

               

       

       
       

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