The payroll of Social Security contributory benefits skyrocketed again in January, the month in which pension spending rose by 6.29%, to 12,651.2 million euros. An amount that is equivalent to 11.5% of the gross domestic product (GDP), below the level of 12.4% that was reached in the pandemic. With the new increase, the retirement pension of the general regime is close to 1,600 euros.
Specifically, the beneficiaries of this type of benefit receive an average of 1,595.5 euros, although the average retirement pension is 1,434.9 euros, while the average of the system – which includes retirement pensions, permanent disability, widowhood , orphanhood and in favor of relatives – amounts to 1,248.6 euros per month.
Another significant fact is that new retirees earn an average of 1,505.2 euros per month – the latest data available is from December -, an amount almost 5% higher than the average retirement benefit, but 11% lower than the average. the new retirees from the general regime receive.
Almost three quarters of the contributory pension payroll – 73% – correspond to retirement pensions, the benefit with the largest number of beneficiaries (6.3 million). Of them, 60% are men; while in the case of the widow’s pension, of the 1.5 million people who receive it as their main benefit, 96% are women. On the other hand, there are 940,874 recipients of permanent disability, 322,993 orphans, and 45,001 in favor of family members.
For its part, the average widow’s pension rose to 891.8 euros per month in January. Likewise, in the first month of the year, 661,981 pensions have received the gender gap supplement, of which 90.4% are women (598,475). The average monthly amount of this pension supplement is 71.2 euros.
