Contributory pensions for June amount to 8.24 billion euros

The average retirement pension stood at 1,020.80 euros, 2.1% higher than in the same period last year. The average pension from the Spanish Social Security system as a whole, which includes all the various types of pension available (retirement, permanent disability, widowhood, orphanhood, and those paid out to relatives), stood at 886.46 euros per month. This represents a year-on-year increase of 1.8%.

The public system comprises 9,293,058 pensions in total, an increase of 1.1% on last year. 5,632,018 of these are retirement pensions, representing more than half the total, while 2,351,794 are widowhood pensions, 930,888 are permanent disability pensions, 339,342 are orphanhood pensions and 39,016 are pensions paid out to relatives.