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"Madam President, I wish to draw the attention of the European Parliament to the calls for help of many. Society’s most vulnerable groups are bearing the brunt of the consequences of the economic crisis. That is particularly true in Hungary today, where the flat-rate tax and family policy measures favouring the well-off have created a massive hole in the budget, which the government is preparing to plug by withdrawing the disability pensions that were agreed on earlier. The government will change insurance-type pensions granted, based on years in service, to people no longer capable of working to lower, benefits-type pensions, or will deprive them of income if they cannot find work on the labour market, which cannot even provide jobs for the healthy. Meanwhile the government is conveying the message that those in question are workshy fraudsters abusing the system. I have received numerous letters asking me to inform the European Parliament of the plight of these people. To quote from one letter: ‘I understand that we need to tighten our belts, but in this country that somehow seems only to apply to the poor these days’."@en1
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