At its meeting on Wednesday 24 September 2025, the Czech Government decided on several key measures that will come into force at the beginning of next year. The most significant change is an increase in pensions. As of 1 January 2026, the average self-funded pensioner will see an increase of CZK 668 per month, a rise of 3.1 per cent. The basic pension rate will increase by 240 crowns and the percentage by 2.6 percent. This also applies to allowances for participants in the resistance against the communist regime or in the struggle for the liberation of Czechoslovakia.

The cabinet also approved a five percent increase in the service income rates of members of the security forces. According to the government, the measure is intended to help stabilise staffing levels. In addition, the stabilisation allowance was increased by CZK 3 000 in June. According to Prime Minister Petr Fiala, this is a signal that the state values the work of police officers, firefighters and other forces and wants to ensure fair conditions for them.

The housing sector is also facing significant change. From January 2026, when the new Housing Support Act comes into force, the number of contact points where people in housing need can get help and advice will be expanded. The government has established catchment areas for people who do not have a contact point in their municipality. The aim is to reduce the extent of housing distress in the country and shorten the time it takes households to get into this situation.

The government also focused on transport infrastructure. While it rejected the possibility of using public-private cooperation (so-called PPP projects) for the completion of three sections of the Prague ring road, it approved this model for the D3 motorway between Nová Nová Hová in Central Bohemia and the D55 motorway in the Bzenec-Břeclav section. The involvement of private investors is supposed to speed up the completion of the backbone motorway network and the government does not rule out the use of the same principle for some sections of the high-speed railway.

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