​Social security

Contributory pensions amount to 8.49 billion euros in June

News - 2016.6.23

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The average retirement pension stood at 1,042.21 euros, 2.1% 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 903.14 euros, representing a year-on-year increase of 1.88%.

In summary, today the public system comprises 9,402,148 contributory pensions in total, an increase of 1.17% on last year. At 5,724,764, more than half of these are retirement pensions, while 2,358,179 are widowhood pensions, 938,095 are permanent disability pensions, 341,403 are orphanhood pensions and 39,707 are pensions paid out to relatives.