Jobbik proposes 100,000 forints aid for each school starter
The opposition Jobbik-Conservatives party is proposing that each child starting school should receive a grant of 100,000 forints (EUR 250), deputy leader Daniel Z Karpat said on Wednesday.
The MP said Hungarian families “do not in fact receive any assistance” when their children go to school, adding that the government’s paying family allowances earlier made them “miss that amount” from their budget later on. On average, sending a child to primary school costs between 50,000-75,000 forints to start with, while “within weeks after the start of the school year, they may be required to come up with extra amounts required by the school,” he said.
Z Karpat said the subsidy could easily be financed “from one half or one third of a major state project”.
