DECREE REGULATING HUNGARIAN SOCIAL INSURANCE PENSIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 191
• Publication Date: July 5, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION S-E-C-R-E-T
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Sociological - Pensions, social insurance
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Budapest
DATE
PUBLISHED 23 Sep 1954
LANGUAGE Hungarian
*1 T1111 11. 1.,
SOURCE Magyar Ifozlony
REPORT
CD NO.
DATE OF
DATE DIST. T July 1955
40. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
DECREE REGULATING HUNGARIAN SOCIAL INSURANCE PENSIONS
A decree with the force of Law No 28, 1954, of the Presidential Council
is applicable to (1) persons, who, on the basis of their employment, are
eligible for pensions under the state social insurance program; and (2) regular
members of the armed forces.
Persons eligible for old-age pension (oregsegi nyugdij) are: (1) men over
60 years of age and women over 55 years of age, who were employed for at least
10 years; (2) men over 55 and women over 50, who were employed for at least 25
and 20 years, respectively, in work harmful to health, in subterranean work, or
in other work designated by the Council of Ministers; and (3) men over 55, who
were employed for at least 20 years, 15 years of which they worked under air
pressures greater than the normal atmospheric pressure.
Persons eligible for disability pension (rokkantsagi nyugdij) are disabled
workers who probably will be unable to return to work within one year, provided
the following age and employment requirements are met:
Age of
Worker
In Nonhazardous Work
22 3
22-25 4
25-30 6
30-35 8
35-40 10
40 and over 10
In Hazardous Work
2
3
4
5
6
7
STATE
ARMY
NAVY
AIR
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Workers who suffer a 15-percent or greater disability as a result of an
occupational accident or disease are eligible for accident payments (baleseti
jaradek), regardless of the length of time worked. For disability not ex-
ceeding 25 percent, workers are eligible for accident payments for not more
than 2 years. If disability exceeds 67 percent, workers will receive a dis-
ability pension rather than accident payments.
The widow of a person who was eligible for disability pension at the time
of his death, or if the husband died as a result of an occupational accident
or disease, will receive a temporary widow's pension (ideiglenes ozvegyi nyug_
did), if she is over 55 years of age at the time of her husband's death. A
widow is eligible, regardless of age, if her health is impaired or if she is
two thirds disabled by a physical defect at the time of her husband's death,
or if she has at least two dependent children, or if her husband was a miner
who died as a result of an occupational accident.
The dependent children, stepchildren, adopted children, foster children,
grandchildren, and brothers and sisters of a deceased worker eligible for a
pension or accident payments may receive insurance payments. Dependent chil-
dren may draw payments through the age of 16, or, if in school, through the age
of 18. Physical or mentally deficient children are eligible for payments,
provided that they have no other source of income.
Old-age and disability pensions are computed on the basis of the worker's
wage and consist of a basic pension (torzsnyugdij), plus a supplementary pension
(nyugdij kiegeszites). The basic pension for old age is 50 percent of the
worker's former wage, and for disability it is 50-80 percent, depending on the
extent of disability. The supplementary pension is one percent of the basic
pension for each year the worker was employed since 1 January 1945.
(Source contains detailed regulations on the computation of insurance pay-
ments for old-age, disability, widows, and dependents. Also covered are specific
exclusions, loss of eligibility, extent of eligibility, etc.)
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