The average widow’s pension is stagnant at 935 euros, despite having risen 300 euros in 10 years
At present, Social Security pays 2,346,859 widow’s pensions, with a cost of 2,197 million euros per month, being the average amount of these payrolls of 936.28 euros per month, According to them statistics newly updated by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration.
He low amount of these payments fundamentally affects women, since of those almost 2.35 million benefits, in September 2025, that is the main pension (that is, the biggest salary that enters the house) of 1.5 million peopleof which the 95.7% They are women, and the vast majority, of advanced age.
Remember that this economic benefit It is calculated by applying the 52% percentage to the corresponding regulatory base, In general, this being different according to the labor situation of the deceased on the date of death and the cause determined by death.
Official data also shows that the situation is even more precarious, When it is detailed that those 936.28 euros are the average pay, but the Widows of the Autonomous Regime They do not even reach 700 euros per month on average, and stay in September in September 682.78 euros on average (details, in lower graph).
Tax pensions in September 2025
In both cases (average widowhood of the total regimes and widowhood of the freelancers), these are pensions whose average amount remains lower than the minimum wage (SMI), which this year is established in 1,184 euros gross monthly in 14 payments, which is equivalent to 16,576 euros gross per year, as established by the Royal Decree 87/2025.
Very precarious pensions always
The vast majority of widowed women drag very pensions forever, as official data shows. For example, the jump to 800 euros on average occurred in 2023, And it was due to the revaluation approved by the Government (Law 21/2021), According to the general increase in contributory benefits (See lower graph).
Statistics confirm that, despite the Strong rise in widowhood payments since 2010, Since several years of revaluation has been higher than that of the contributory pensions, its current amount is still very modest.
Evolution of the amount of contributory pensions
According to the pensioners movements, that expose the economic narrowness of the vast majority of widows, especially those of older, To their very small pensions add the logical problems of the Aging and health. With their payments, of amount more than modest, they have been fighting with the steep price increase in the supermarket for years, with The purchase basket increasingly prohibitive and huge to electricity and gas invoices.
Pensioners organizations, such as Coespe, the movement of Basque pensioners (MPEH) or ASJUBI40, urge the Government to raise the amount of these payments, which are from contributory, especially the most precarious, and underline that it is inadmissible that Widows still charge “pensions that scratch in misery.”
