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JOBBIK PROPOSES HUF 100,000 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 Dániel Z Kárpát 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 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 Kárpát said the subsidy could easily be financed “from one half or one third of a major state project”.