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Social Security has paid a total of 10.379.303 pensions at 9,389,688 million people. The payroll, which this month amounts to 13,638.1 million eurosincludes the different kinds of contributory pensions: retirement, widowhood, permanent disability, orphanhood and in favor of relatives.
The average system pension reaches the 1,314 monthly euros, which represents an increase in 4.5% Regarding the same month of the previous year.
Specifically, the average retirement pensionwho perceive close of 6.5 million people (more than two thirds of the total), it is located in 1,508.7 euros per month4.4% higher than a year ago. 59.2% of people who receive retirement pension as the main benefit are men.
By regimes, the amount of the average retirement pension from the General regime It is from 1,667.6 euros per monthwhile in the Special regime of self -employed workers It is from 1,010.9 euros per month. In the Coal miningthe amount of the average pension reaches 2,907.7 euros, and 1,671.8 euros in the Special regime of sea workers.
For its part, the average pension of widowhood It is from 936.3 euros monthly. This pension is the main one for 1.5 million peopleof which 95.7% are women.
As for new retirement highs, The average amount of the system is 1,639.1 eurosaccording to the latest data available (August). Specifically, in the general regime, the average pension of the new retirement high amounts to 1,753.2 euros per month.
Payroll and class pension
The monthly payroll of tax pensions reached in September the figure of 13,638.1 million euros. As usual, almost three quarters correspond to pensions of retirementwhich represent more the 73% of the total (9,969,135 million euros).
To pensions of widowhood They have been assigned 2,197.3 million of euros, while the payroll for permanent disability benefits amounts to 1,256.5 million; The orphanhood, to 178.6 million euros and that of benefits in favor of relatives, to 36.5 million.
Delayed retirements increase
Until August (inclusive), last data available, they have registered 241,188 new highs retirement. Delayed retirements already represent 11.3% Of the total of these new highs, compared to 4.8% of 2019. Together, 72.8% of the highs are produced at the ordinary retirement age or subsequently, 13 percentage points more than in 2019, thanks to a large extent to the incentives to bring the age of access to the legal age of retirement to the legal age of retirement
The early retirementson the other hand, 12.8% fall in six years and only suppose the 27.2% of the total of new retirement.
This change reflects the impact of the delay incentives in force since 2022 and the reconfiguration of the early retirement pension framework. As a result, the average age of access to retirement It is located in 65.3 yearscompared to 64.4 years in 2019. In the case of women, the average retirement age is 65.8 years.
As for the average resolution time of the files, in August (last available data) was 9.4 days in the case of the retirement pension and 11.5 days in the case of widowhood pensions. Keep in mind that the maximum resolution period in these procedures, according to RD 286/2003 of March 7 and RD 1192/2021, of August 3, is 90 days both in retirement benefits and in widow’s benefits.
In September, 1,143,657 pensions include the Complement for gender gap reductionof which 85% correspond to women (972,493). The average amount of this complement is 75.2 euros per month.
Of the total complemented pensions, more than 24.7% correspond to pensioners with a child (282,370), 47.9% of the beneficiaries, with two children (547,827); 18.2% perceive it for three children (208,025), and for four children, 9.2% (105,435).
Passive classes
On the other hand, the monthly payroll of passive classes pensions amounted to 1,674.9 million of euros in the month of August (last data available). Compared to the payroll of the same month of the previous year the increase is 94.6 million euros (6% annual variation).
The number of pensions of the system of Passive classes in force it was 725,631which are 14,288 pensions more than in August 2024, with a growth close to 2% per year.
The State passive class regime mainly includes military and civil personnel of the General State Administration, the Administration of Justice, the General Courts and other constitutional or state bodies, as well as the officials transferred to the Autonomous Communities.
