this Social Security allocated to the payment of the record figure of 10,887 million euros in the current October. pensions contributinga 6.2% more Coverage is compared to the same month in 2021, which homogeneously reported a 4.5% year-on-year increase in spending, as reported by the Ministry of Social Security and Immigration on Tuesday.
The Department, headed by José Luis Escrivá, estimates pension expenditures at 11.8% of GDP in the tenth month of the year; this is a percentage lower than 2020 (12.4% of GDP), a year conditioned by the impact of the pandemic on GDP, and also lower than 2021 (12.1% of GDP). Almost all of the 10,887 million euros allocated to the payment of contribution pensions in October three quarters (72.5%) were used to pay a pension pensionreached €7,890.2 million, which is 6.77% more than in October last year.
€ 1,836 million was allocated to the widow’s pension, almost 5.1% more than a year ago, while € 982 million (+3.9%) was allocated to permanent disability benefits. The payment of the orphan’s benefit required 149.8 million (+4.9%) and the sum of benefits in favor of family members amounted to 28.5 million Euros (+6.9%).
pension
In October this year, 9,959,123 contributed pensions were paid to just over 9 million retirees, 0.8% more than a year ago. Of the total pensions, 6.27 million were pensions; 2.35 million widow’s pension; 948,917 permanently disabled; 341,194 of them are in favor of orphan’s pension and 44,505 in favor of relatives.
Total number of retirees (9,022,989 as of 1 October), 4.6 million men, 4.4 million women. The number of pensions per pensioner is 1.1.
The main pension received is pension for 6.2 million people; widows for 1.6 million people; permanent disability for 943,539 retirees; 323,925 people were given orphans and 43,766 retirees were given relative aid.
Average
this the average pension reached 1,257.9 euros per month in October, almost 5.4% more compared to the same month of the previous year.
In the General Programme, the average pension was 1,405.9 euros, while in the Self-Employed Plan it was 837.3 euros per month. The average pension in Coal Mining is 2,451.4 Euros per month and 1,396 Euros in Marine Mining. The average amount of new pension enrollments rose to 1,435.7 euros per month in September (latest data available).
In October, the average widow’s salary was 780.6 euros per monthThe average pension of the system, which includes different types of pensions such as retirement, permanent disability, widow, orphan and relatives, increased by 5.2% compared to the previous year and increased by 5.4% to 1,093.13 Euros per month on 1 October.
passive classes
On the other hand, the number of pensions for passive classes in effect at the end of September (latest data available) was 685,478, 1.7% higher than in the same month of 2021. The monthly payroll of these pensioners is 1,328.8 million euros.
The State Passive Class Regime basically includes military personnel and officers from the General State Administration, the Administration of Justice, the General Courts and other constitutional or government agencies, as well as officers transferred to the autonomous communities.
gender inequality
dated October 1, 341,470 pensions received a gender gap supplementIts purpose is to gradually smooth out the gap between the average pension that a man receives and that of a woman.
The monthly average amount of this supplement received on a monthly basis, 93% of womenThis 61.4 €. 21.5% of the 341,470 additional pensions correspond to pensioners with one child (73,403); 47.2%, with two children (161,341); 20%, three (68,379) and 11.2% (38,347), four children.
This supplement, which has been in force since February last year, consists of a fixed monthly fee of 28 Euros per child, valid from the first child up to a maximum of four. It is requested at the same time as the pension is requested.