The Hungarian government is failing to ensure older people\u2019s rights to social security and an adequate standard of living, including access to sufficient food, medicine, and energy.The rise in poverty among older people, which became evident during sharp inflation in 2022 and 2023, highlights longstanding structural problems with the Hungarian pension and social security system.Hungary should raise the lowest pensions to reduce pension inequality and guarantee the rights of all older people in the country to social security and to an adequate standard of living.<\/p>\n
(Brussels, January 14, 2026)\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Hungarian<\/a> government is failing to ensure older people\u2019s rights to social security and to an adequate standard of living, including access to sufficient food, medicine, and energy, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should urgently review retirement pensions and take immediate steps to increase pension levels in line with human rights obligations to address rising poverty among\u00a0older people<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Hungarian government expects hundreds of thousands of older people to survive on low pensions that are evidently inadequate,\u201d said\u00a0Kartik Raj<\/a>, senior Europe researcher at Human Rights Watch. \u201cHungary\u2019s insufficient social security system forces many older people to choose whether to spend their meager pensions on food, medicine, or heating, and which essential item to do without.\u201d<\/p>\n Official\u00a0data<\/a> show that about 2 million people received age-related pensions at the end of 2024, more than two-thirds of them below the monthly gross minimum wage (266,800 HUF, or \u20ac676). Almost a quarter of all pensioners (471,000 people) receive pensions below the official income poverty threshold (173,990 HUF, or \u20ac441). Higher numbers and proportions of women receive pensions below these thresholds.<\/p>\n Human Rights Watch interviewed 45 people ages 65 to 91 who receive age-based contributory pensions in Budapest and two rural communities, and social policy experts and pensioner associations, and analyzed official data.<\/p>\n Hungarian Central Statistical Office data show a rapidly rising risk of poverty for older people. The\u00a0at-risk-of-poverty rate<\/a> for people 65 and over increased from 6.3 percent in 2018 to 16.1 percent in 2023. Nearly one-in-five older women is at risk of poverty. The data show a general decline in the at-risk-of-poverty rate across the population and for people under 64; which the authorities have chosen to\u00a0emphasize<\/a> while downplaying rising poverty for older people.\u00a0<\/p>\n The increase in poverty experienced by older people coincides with rising inflation since 2018, which skyrocketed in 2022 and 2023 when food price increases in Hungary\u00a0outstripped<\/a> those in other European Union countries. Older people on low pensions were among those hardest hit, with many unable to maintain adequate diets due to the surging prices of staples, such as sugar, oil, flour, dairy, meat, and fruit.<\/p>\n Hungarian authorities responded by managing gas prices, and imposing partial price controls on key food items in\u00a02023<\/a> and\u00a02025<\/a>. However, vendors increased prices of other uncapped goods to make up their losses, limiting the effectiveness of price capping.<\/p>\n The plight of older people in Hungary is at odds with the government\u2019s repeated claims that it prioritizes the wellbeing of \u201cordinary Hungarians,\u201d Human Rights Watch said. These claims also come amid international concern over Hungary\u2019s anti-democratic rule and widespread violations of liberties and freedoms.<\/p>\n The rise in poverty among older people highlights longstanding structural problems with the Hungarian pension and social security system. These include a flawed pension indexation method that causes low pensions to lose value faster than higher ones, perpetuating inequality, and leaving those with the lowest incomes furthest behind.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople who have millions can\u2019t imagine this life, when you have nothing to spend and are just surviving,\u201d said a 90-year-old woman who worked in a state-owned textile company and then ran a state shop in J\u00e1sz-Nagykun-Szolnok county, until she retired in 1991. \u201cA person who worked for 40 years shouldn\u2019t have to live like this. We need a more equal pension system.\u201d<\/p>\n Government steps to provide additional financial support to pensioners have only provided partial relief and have not addressed structural inequalities. In 2020, the government gradually introduced a \u201c13th month pension,\u201d providing all pensioners with an extra monthly payment per year since 2024. In November 2025, the government\u00a0proposed<\/a> creating a \u201c14th month pension.\u201d Although older people interviewed appreciated the additional support, many want the government to address the fundamental problem that their monthly pensions are too low to reverse the increasing at-risk-of-poverty rate among older people.<\/p>\n In July 2025, the government decided to issue one-off 30,000 HUF (\u20ac76) in food vouchers to all pension recipients, redeemable for \u201ccold food\u201d between October and December. Many older people interviewed said having the cash equivalent added to their pension, instead of vouchers, would have allowed them greater independence over how to spend the funds. A few dismissed the meal vouchers as a political gimmick and others said they were worth significantly less than a tax refund for pension recipients that was initially proposed by the government, but abandoned due to administrative complexity.<\/p>\n Hungary has an obligation under the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights to ensure all economic, social, and cultural rights, including the rights to social security, to an adequate standard of living, and the highest attainable standard of health. International human rights standards, treaties, and related guidance on social security set out clear requirements for the adequacy of social security benefits. European social rights law provides protection from poverty and social exclusion, as well as a specific \u201cright of elderly persons to social protection.\u201d<\/p>\n Hungary should urgently review the adequacy of pension levels, raising the lowest pensions to reduce pension inequality, to guarantee the rights of all older people in the country to social security and an adequate standard of living. In particular, the government should take immediate steps to ensure that no one is left without adequate nutritious food, sufficient energy to warm their home, and necessary medication and supplies to ensure their health.<\/p>\n \u201cFood coupons or a hastily legislated extra month\u2019s pension are band-aids to address Hungary\u2019s open wound of rising pensioner poverty,\u201d Raj said. \u201cIf the Hungarian government genuinely cares about older people\u2019s right to social security, it should urgently increase low pensions, take decisive steps to make the system more equitable, and ensure that all older people in the country can afford a decent, dignified living standard.\u201d<\/p>\n For further data analysis and detailed accounts by the people interviewed, please see below.<\/p>\n Methodology<\/p>\n In October and November 2025, Human Rights Watch interviewed 45 people\u201429 women and 16 men\u2014between ages 65 and 91, receiving low pension incomes from the public contributory pension in Budapest and rural communities in Szabolcs-Szatm\u00e1r-Bereg and J\u00e1sz-Nagykun-Szolnok counties. Most received pensions less than 173,990 HUF\/month (\u20ac441), the at-risk-of-poverty threshold, in line with the EU definition of 60 percent of median equivalized net income in a given country.<\/p>\n Real names are used where interviewees granted consent; pseudonyms are used for those who requested anonymity. Human Rights Watch informed people interviewed of the purpose and voluntary nature of the interview and obtained verbal consent. Nobody received compensation for providing information.<\/p>\n Human Rights Watch also interviewed experts on social policy, pensions, and poverty, as well as representatives of pensioner associations.<\/p>\n Human Rights Watch analyzed official data from the Hungarian Central Statistical Office<\/a>, Eurostat<\/a>, and data from social scientists and municipal authorities including time-series data on poverty rates, pension levels, and inflation, and compared income distributions across age groups. The research accounts for the fact that Hungary has two types of minimum wage: a \u201cgross minimum wage\u201d for positions that require no formal educational qualifications, and the \u201cguaranteed minimum salary\u201d for positions that require evidence of completing high school.<\/p>\n Summarized findings and additional questions were sent to the Hungarian government prior to publication. No response was received.<\/p>\n To assess the adequacy of pension levels, Human Rights Watch applied international human rights standards, including the requirements under the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights that social security benefits must be sufficient to enable recipients to enjoy an adequate standard of living. Human Rights Watch reviewed multiple indicators of adequacy, including poverty thresholds, the relationship between pensions and statutory minimum wages, inflation and food price trends, and the real value of pensions over time. Human Rights Watch compared relevant benchmarks with official pension distributions to evaluate whether current benefit levels ensure income security for older people.<\/p>\n The research uses a Euro-Hungarian Forint conversion figure of \u20ac1 = 395.44 HUF, based on the European Central Bank\u2019s average exchange rate<\/a>. The rate derives from the average across 2024, to ensure consistency with other data drawn from 2024. Euro figures are rounded.<\/p>\n Key Pension System Features<\/p>\n Hungary\u2019s\u00a0pension system<\/a> is based on a compulsory social insurance scheme financed primarily through contributions from current workers, with additional funding from general revenue.<\/p>\n Old-age pensions are available to people who reach the statutory retirement age, currently 65, or those who have accumulated a sufficient number of contributory years. Women can, in some cases, retire after 40 years of eligibility (including employment and certain child-raising years) regardless of age, based on current legislation. Benefit levels are calculated using a formula that accounts for an individual\u2019s lifetime earnings and contribution history, meaning people with lower wages or interrupted employment receive substantially lower pensions.<\/p>\n In the\u00a0current system<\/a>, pension eligibility generally requires at least 20 years of contributions, and a minimum of 15 years for the lowest tier of benefits. People with fewer years are excluded from the system, but those who do not qualify can apply for a \u201dminimum pension\u201d of 28,500 HUF\/month (\u20ac72). Pension experts consulted said that very few people receive the minimum pension.<\/p>\n Groups most affected by low pension incomes include women with interrupted employment due to unpaid care responsibilities and people who worked in informal or partially informal jobs, raising concerns about structural discrimination and the state\u2019s obligation to ensure universal and adequate social security to all older people.<\/p>\n Hungary\u2019s Fidesz government abolished the country\u2019s mixed public\u2013private pension system in 2011,\u00a0nationalizing<\/a> the system into a single public pillar, using legislative means to override property rights and legal certainty. The post-2010 system has over time\u00a0exacerbated income inequality<\/a> between pensioners.<\/p>\n Structural Problems with Pensions and Falling Living Standards<\/p>\n The experience of older people on fixed pension incomes, which came into stark relief during the cost-of-living crisis of 2022 and 2023, highlighted at least four structural problems with the Hungarian pension and social security system.<\/p>\n First, it is a \u201cpure pay-as-you-go state pension system<\/a>,\u201d with benefits calculated based on years of qualifying work and wage-based contributions during those years. People who had comparatively low earnings during Communist rule, or in the post-Communist transition, and retired in the 1990s or early 2000s generally tend to receive lower pensions than people who have more recently become eligible.<\/p>\n Second, it was commonplace to earn unreported income in\u00a0the informal economy<\/a> in the latter decades of Communist rule, and successive governments continued to allow \u201coff the books\u201d employment after the transition. As a result, many people discover when they retire that their pensions are much smaller than they expected.<\/p>\n Third, between 2009 and 2011, Hungarian authorities stopped factoring in wages into annual pension increases, (as used to happen under the so-called Swiss indexation mechanism, which indexed pensions half by inflation and half by nominal wage growth), choosing to base subsequent annual increases solely on the consumer price index. Given rapid wage increases in the late 2010s, pensions have not kept up with wages and the cost of living. Some pension experts and pensioner advocacy groups argue that reintroducing the \u201cSwiss indexation\u201d mechanism would help address pension inadequacy problems. The\u00a0indexed increases also often lag<\/a> by several months, which causes particular problems for pensioners receiving low incomes during rapid inflation.<\/p>\n Finally, the data also bear out a wider demographic trend that older women tend to live longer than older men, and given that women in general receive lower pensions, higher numbers and proportions of women receive low pension incomes as they age. Nearly a quarter of all people receiving an old age pension are women over the age of 75. Human Rights Watch estimates that the median man receives an old age pension that is 16 percent higher than that received by the median woman. Nineteen percent of older women are more likely to be at-risk-of-poverty, compared with 12 percent of older men.<\/p>\n Case Study of One Municipality<\/p>\n Local authorities in one of the municipalities that Human Rights Watch visited provided information on the ages of all residents receiving pensions and gross monthly pension payment amounts. At the time of the visit, 98 pensioners between ages 63 and 92 received age-related retirement pensions. All but nine received pensions below the poverty threshold, and all received pensions lower than the gross monthly minimum wage.<\/p>\n Older People\u2019s Concerns Over Lack of Pension Equity<\/p>\n Older people raised concerns about their pension incomes not meeting living costs, their perception that they were being treated unfairly, and the inequality embedded in the Hungarian pension system. Many said they depended on free or subsidized meals from municipal social services, and in some instances through charities. Although municipal provision of free or subsidized meals do form part of the state\u2019s efforts to guarantee the rights to social security and to an adequate standard of living, and most likely help address food insecurity among older people, Human Rights Watch noted that such provision varied significantly between municipalities and may not provide uniform or comparable coverage to all older people on low incomes across the country.<\/p>\n B\u00e9la, 87, raised animals in a state-run agricultural cooperative in a village in Szabolcs-Szatm\u00e1r-Bereg county until it ceased to exist in the early 1990s. He was then unemployed until he reached pension eligibility age. His pension is 148,665 HUF\/month (\u20ac376), which he calculates leaves him with about 10,000 HUF (\u20ac25) as his monthly disposable income after paying for food, utilities, medicine, and home maintenance. B\u00e9la said:<\/p>\n I get a lunch service delivered by the municipality. I spend what I have on breakfast and dinner. I always pay my bills. It\u2019s not fair. I don\u2019t even get half of what I should for the work I did. All the people who had jobs like mine, who are still living, have very low pensions. If I could change things, I would \u2026 make sure that older people with less money can continue to live in villages, otherwise the villages will cease to exist.<\/p>\n \u201cZsuzsa,\u201d 85, was born into a farming family in J\u00e1sz-Nagykun-Szolnok county. The family\u2019s land and tools were collectivized in 1959, after which she worked briefly in a state-run agricultural cooperative, and then left paid work to raise a child with disabilities. She resumed paid work at 38, in the state radiator factory, and was forced into retirement at 55, when state assets were sold off in the mid-1990s. She lives alone, and her pension is 138,000 HUF\/month (\u20ac349). Zsuzsa said:<\/p>\n Those with high pensions say they worked hard and deserve it. No one worked harder than farmers and factory workers, but we are left on the periphery. There are hundreds of thousands of pensioners with very low monthly income. There has to be a fairer way to share the pensions. For example if everyone gets a 1.6 percent pension raise, for me it\u2019s 2,000 HUF (\u20ac5), but for someone else who already has a high pension, it could be tens of thousands. I don\u2019t want to say we should take pensions away from others, but we should make it fairer.<\/p>\n Tihomir, 78, was a cinema engineer in Romania, which he fled in 1989 living briefly in Germany, and then worked for more than 20 years in sales at an import market in Budapest. He said he had a good salary in his years working in Budapest, but realized when he began to claim his pension that he had not been in full legal employment during those years, and that due to contractual irregularities had not made the necessary social security contributions.<\/p>\n His monthly pension, including pension income from Romania, was 125,000 HUF (\u20ac316). Tihomir lives in affordable housing in Budapest and gets free meals from social services in his district. Tihomir said:\u00a0<\/p>\n Without free lunch and my low-rent apartment, I could not survive. I am grateful to the local municipality. With the rising prices of medicines and groceries, I can\u2019t afford healthy food anymore. I can\u2019t buy fruit, the only fruit I eat is in the small cups of yogurt that cost 80 HUF (20 cents). I can\u2019t afford even a soft drink. It\u2019s sad the place I\u2019m in now.<\/p>\n Erika, 83, and Anna, 80, are sisters who live together in an apartment in Budapest\u2019s VIII district. Erika was a kindergarten educator and administrator until she retired in 2000, and Anna was a gymnastics teacher until her retirement in 2004 and had been an Olympic gymnastics coach. Following the most recent indexed increase, one of their pensions has increased to the point that it took them above the \u201cat-risk-of-poverty\u201d threshold and close to the \u201cgross minimum wage\u201d for two adults; their household income is 518,000 HUF\/month (\u20ac1,312). Anna and Erika said that supermarket leaflets containing discount coupons had become \u201clike a Bible\u201d to them, as they now base their shopping almost solely on discounted products. Anna said:<\/p>\n We are not whining or complaining. There are people in worse conditions, of course. But we feel the hardship. If the government wants to build a future with long-term prospects, they should have more respect for the work previous generations have done. We worked, we had honest jobs, we built this country, we didn\u2019t steal money, and now we can\u2019t afford to live.<\/p>\n Choosing Between Food and Heat<\/p>\n Following the rapid inflation of 2022 and 2023, most of the older people interviewed reported either reducing their food intake, cutting back on heating their homes, or both.<\/p>\n \u201cAnita,\u201d 78, lives in a village in Szabolcs-Szatm\u00e1r-Bereg county. She worked on farms and in a factory, and then in the post office from 1983 until her retirement. She spent some years receiving a disability benefit following an injury. Her retirement pension is 150,425 HUF\/month (\u20ac381). Anita said:<\/p>\n I never miss buying medicine, but I cut back on other things like food or heating. I only buy what is needed. I like fruit, but I don\u2019t buy it anymore. I make do with plums from my garden, and apples from my cousin. I raise my own chickens in the summer, freeze them whole, and cook them. If I cook, I make a dish that lasts for four or five days, and I\u2019ve stopped eating lunch so the food lasts longer. I would eat more fish if I could, but I can only dream. The cost of firewood has gone up too.\u2026 And I need to pay someone to come and chop it. I only use the wood oven in the main room when I\u2019m alone. I can\u2019t afford the gas heating, but I need to keep it working for when the grandchildren visit.<\/p>\n Piroska, 91, lives in a town in J\u00e1sz-Nagykun-Szolnok county. She worked in agriculture from when she left school in 1945, at age 11, until she retired in 1998, the year her husband died. She had received a letter notifying her of a raise shortly before being interviewed; she said her pension after the raise was just under 200,000 HUF\/month (\u20ac505). To save money, Piroska switches on the heat only in the afternoon or spends the day at a center for older people.<\/p>\n Access to adequate food goes beyond mere subsistence, and can affect social participation and levels of social isolation. Older people reported no longer being able to afford \u201ctreats\u201d like going out for coffee or a soft drink, as a way of spending time with friends. Many older women referred to rising fruit and vegetable prices affecting their ability to enjoy one of their favorite activities: creating preserves, jams, and pickles during the summer, for additional nutrition during the rest of the year and as an affordable way to give gifts.<\/p>\n \u201cKati,\u201d 71, a retired teacher living in Budapest\u2019s XI district, receives a pension of 175,675 HUF\/month (\u20ac444). Reflecting on recent sharp food price increases, Kati said:<\/p>\n I always preserved fruit to make jam or compote for the whole family, but I can\u2019t afford to do it anymore. I used to eat plain yogurt with my homemade fruit jam in the winter. I can\u2019t have that anymore. That was always a gift I could make for others, even if I didn\u2019t have a lot of money. I could make zakuska [a vegetable spread] and give jars to my friends, family, my language teachers. It was cheaper than buying chocolate, and also it\u2019s homemade and shows care. I\u2019m so sad I can\u2019t do that anymore.\u00a0<\/p>\n Difficulty Paying for Medication<\/p>\n Other older people said they cannot pay for medical supplies and prescribed medication to treat chronic health conditions, including diabetes, hypertension, asthma, and vascular disease.<\/p>\n Ildik\u00f3, 69, was a hairdresser for 43 years in Budapest, until she retired in 2017. Ildik\u00f3 receives a pension of 77,000 HUF\/month (\u20ac195), and blames this in part on the common practice in hairdressing of irregular pay arrangements leading to low contribution to social security, symptomatic of a\u00a0wider informal economy<\/a> in the hospitality sector. Municipal social services deliver free meals to her door because she typically has little left for food after contributing to communal maintenance costs for her apartment block, and paying for utilities and medication.<\/p>\n Ildik\u00f3 has type-2 diabetes and high blood pressure. Her doctor has told her she should measure her blood sugar three times a day, which requires a single-use blood glucose test strip each time. A pack of six paper strips costs 4,000 HUF (\u20ac10), and the monthly cost of following her doctor\u2019s instructions would be 60,000 HUF (\u20ac151), effectively using most of her pension. She said:<\/p>\n I can\u2019t afford to measure my blood sugar. Who will pay for it? When I requested a medical subsidy, it was refused. My last pension raise was 3,000 HUF (\u20ac8), which won\u2019t even pay for one pack of the little paper slips for testing my blood sugar. I get free meals delivered to me, but I can\u2019t afford to maintain the diet I need to manage my diabetes. I don\u2019t feel respected, and I don\u2019t think the state is taking care of me. I have no hope for the future and will live like this until the end of my life.<\/p>\n Tibor, 67, from Budapest\u2019s XVII district, tended livestock from age 15 on a state cooperative and then for a private company until the mid-1990s. He then worked in a factory. When he retired four years ago, he said he was told that only six years of his working life had counted as legal employment with pension contributions: he receives 42,000 HUF\/month (\u20ac106). He has lived in a homeless shelter in Budapest for about 15 years and barely has enough money to buy food. \u201cI have health problems with my arteries, dizziness, my ears are oozing, and the veins on my legs are very itchy, but poor people can\u2019t buy medicine,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n Hungary has a public means-tested support program, under which people on low incomes with serious chronic health conditions can apply for a\u00a0card<\/a> to meet certain healthcare costs, valid for a specified monthly amount of up to 12,000 HUF (\u20ac30). However, based on interviews, it was not clear that such support was adequate to prevent hardship associated with out-of-pocket healthcare costs or uniformly received by those who would benefit from it. Some older people interviewed were effectively denied their right to health because they could not afford prescribed medication and medical supplies.<\/p>\n International and Regional Human Rights and Social Rights Standards<\/p>\n Hungary is a party to the\u00a0International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights<\/a> which obligates it to fulfill the right to social security. The UN\u00a0Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights<\/a>, which monitors the treaty\u2019s implementation, has provided authoritative\u00a0guidance<\/a> on what that obligation entails, including in relation to minimum protections and adequacy of benefits over time. The committee\u2019s guidance includes a requirement to address structural problems with social security system design, including pension coverage for workers in the informal economy and gender gaps.<\/p>\n States parties to the\u00a0covenant<\/a> must also fulfill the right to an adequate standard of living, which includes \u201cadequate food, clothing, housing, and the continuous improvement of living conditions\u201d and the right to health.<\/p>\n Despite being party to the treaty, Hungary has not reported to the committee in more than 10 years, limiting monitoring of its compliance.<\/p>\n As a European Union member state, Hungary is also bound by the union\u2019s\u00a0Charter of Fundamental Rights,\u00a0<\/a>which in article 34 includes obligations to protect entitlements to social security and social services, and to respect the right to social assistance to combat social exclusion and poverty.<\/p>\n The right to social security is also contained in the International Labour Organization\u2019s\u00a0Convention 102<\/a> and the European Code of Social Security (original<\/a> and\u00a0revised<\/a>). However, Hungary has not ratified these instruments.<\/p>\n The (Revised) European Social Charter includes \u201cthe right of elderly persons to social security<\/a>\u201d (article 23), which is understood to include pension and benefit levels sufficient to \u201clead a decent life\u201d and play an active part in public, social and cultural life. The Charter further contains \u201ca right to protection from poverty and social exclusion<\/a>\u201d (article 30).<\/p>\n However, Hungary has not accepted either of these provisions, meaning that people in Hungary have no means by which to hold the government to account. In the\u00a0last available examination<\/a> of Hungary in 2021, the European Committee of Social Rights, which supervises compliance with the Charter, found that the minimum pension in Hungary was \u201cmanifestly inadequate.\u201d<\/p>\n The\u00a0European Committee of Social Rights<\/a> has developed\u00a0recent jurisprudence<\/a> setting out that in order for people to enjoy their rights to housing and health under the European Social Charter, for example, they must have \u201cstable, consistent, and safe access to adequate energy.\u201d The Committee has also set out\u00a0guidance<\/a> to state parties noting the importance of addressing structural shortcomings in social security systems which exacerbate the effect of cost-of-living crises.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hungarian government is failing to ensure older people\u2019s rights to social security and an adequate standard of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28,147,530],"class_list":{"0":"post-406456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-personal-finance","10":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}