The minister highlighted that the daily volume of around a thousand applications proves the government’s housing policy is on the right track — one that supports families and home ownership rather than dependence. “While Brussels and the Tisza Party it controls push for migration and would subsidize renting, creating systems of dependency, our government is building a nation of sovereign homeowners,” he said.
Minister Hankó added that alongside Otthon Start, vocational education and higher education have also been renewed, and the personal income tax exemption for those under 25 has provided significant relief. “This measure has left more than 610 billion forints in the pockets of young people over the past few years. Today, 300,000 young Hungarians benefit from it, saving an average of 1.2 million forints a year,” he noted.
He contrasted this with Brussels’ migration-driven demographic approach, emphasizing that “the Hungarian government believes population growth should come through supporting work and family, not mass migration.”
According to the minister, in 2010 an average family received 800,000 forints in family support; today that amount has risen to 4.7 million. “The Tisza Party would not only take away these tax benefits but would also introduce new taxes. They plan to raise the 15 percent flat tax to between 22 and 33 percent and abolish both income tax exemptions and family tax credits — a devastating blow for young people and mothers,” Hankó warned.
He reaffirmed the government’s goal that by 2026, two out of three working mothers will be exempt from income tax. “From January 2026, half a million mothers will be tax-free, and by 2029 that number will reach one million — mothers who will never again have to pay income tax for the rest of their lives,” he said.
Recalling the decline in birth rates under previous left-wing governments, Hankó pointed out that “due to the Bokros austerity package, 322,000 thirty-year-old women are missing from the population, and by 2010 Hungary had the lowest fertility rate in the EU.” Thanks to a consistent family-friendly policy, however, “Hungary became the EU’s bronze medalist in population growth by 2023, with as many new births as the entire population of Debrecen,” he emphasized.
“The Tisza Party’s so-called demographic program can only be achieved through illegal migration,” he concluded. “We, on the other hand, are committed to supporting Hungarian families, because helping young people start their lives successfully means ensuring the success of our families and our nation.”