Spending on pensions has increased by almost 1,000 million euros compared to last December’s payroll and exceeds 11,000 million euros for the first time in history: 11,902 million. This is because, in application of the pension reform, pensions have risen by 8.5% by 2023, as a result of average inflation for the period December 2021-November 2022.
In January this year, 10,009,149 contributory pensions were paid out, 0.9% more than a year ago, to just over nine million pensioners. The number of pensions per pensioner is 1.1.
Of the total number of pensions, more than 6.32 million were retirement pensions; 2.35 million were widow’s pensions; 948,476 were permanent disability pensions; 340,750 were orphan’s pensions; and 44,848 were family pensions. Of the total number of pensioners (9,067,433 on 1 January this year), 4.6 million were men and 4.5 million were women.
Following the 8.5% increase in pensions this year, the average retirement pension rose by 9.8% in January to 1,368.3 euros per month. In the General Scheme, the average retirement pension amounted to 1,527.8 euros per month, compared with 910.9 euros per month in the Self-Employed Scheme.
