Social Security

Contributory pensions amount to 8.53 billion euros in August

2016.8.25

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The average retirement pension stood at 1,044.90 euros, 2.09% higher than for 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 905.30 euros, representing a year-on-year increase of 1.89%.

In summary, today the public system comprises 9,427,785 contributory pensions in total, an increase of 1.29% on last year. At 5,744,786, more than half of these are retirement pensions, while 2,359,879 are widowhood pensions, 940,730 are permanent disability pensions, 342,486 are orphanhood pensions and 39,904 are pensions paid out to relatives.