Budapest municipality to launch utility support scheme

The Budapest municipality is launching a utility price support scheme where people with low incomes will be eligible for 48,000 forints (EUR 117) a year, to be deducted from their utility bills, Mayor Gergely Karacsony said in a video posted on Facebook on Wednesday. Low-income families raising children, people living with disabilities or chronic illness and retirees with their pensions below subsistence level will be eligible for the support, he said. Elderly people whose pensions are below the "real average" pension will be eligible for 24,000 forints annually, he added.