State pension
The Hungarian old-age pension is worked out with a single service-based formula: a percentage, set by years of service, applied to a career-average earnings base. This section covers the retirement age, how the calculation works, and the minimum pension, drawn from Tny. and its implementing decree.
The Hungarian old-age pension runs on a single formula: a percentage, set by years of service, applied to a monthly average-earnings base. The retirement age is not simply a matter of counting calendar years — the statute reads it from its own table, keyed on date of birth. This section covers all three, under Tny. (Act LXXXI of 1997) and its implementing decree (Government Decree 168/1997).
Where to start
- Retirement age — the table by date of birth, and the rule that applied before it.
- How the pension is calculated — the earnings base, the service-year percentage table, and the minimum amount.
- FAQ — short answers.
No early-retirement route
Tny. currently carries no standing early (preferential) old-age pension route: the one provision that mentions such a scheme is a transitional rule preserving awards already made before 1997, not an option open to a new claimant today. That is why this site has no separate early-retirement page — if the law changes, this section will too.
There is one exception in the other direction: someone who keeps working past the retirement age without claiming sees their eventual pension go up — covered on the calculation page.